I just got off the phone with an IBM press representative at the Lotusphere show in Orlando, Florida and he was able to confirm for me that IBM has been showing vendors and partners technologies which will optimize IBM technologies for Apple products. While he was unable to go into greater detail, its clear that IBM is working on some kind of Lotus-related products for Apple. Whether that’s actually the iPhone or just a Leopard-tweaked Lotus Notes 8.0.1 client for Mac OS X is unknown at this time. He was able to confirm that IBM isn’t done making announcements just yet, either. More details to come.

written by Tyler Regas

I know, this isn’t your typical cool gear from The Dojo, but I’m really digging on this piece ‘o gadge. This, you see, is NewerTech’s new USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter. In one slick case you have a standard ATA interface, a laptop ATA interface, and the new SATA-I/II interface. The only thing that’s missing is the SAS interface! Officially it supports IDE and ATAPI, too.

Hook this all up, power it, and stick it into a USB 2.0 port, and that internal-only drive is magically transformed into an external drive. Its these kinds of toys that allow nerds to keep systems working, avoid catastrophic problems, migrate data from one place to another where normally impossible, and otherwise get crazy with OS installation. Going for US$29.95 and is available now. Get one! [PS: that NurdKewl in the title was inserted by me -Ed.]

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Microvision has announced that they have entered into a range of agreements with Asian concerns and Motorola to produce their new PicoP Display Engine for use in mobile applications. The laser-based technology allows very small devices such as mobile phones and PDAs project large, bright, color images through either an in-built projector or an external projector module. There are no details as of yet regarding product availability.

written by Tyler Regas \\ tags: CES, mobile, news, technology

Okay, so its not going to ship until May 2008, but its cool now because of what it portends. Not long ago we were oogling at 32GB SSDs with envy. Now Toshiba will soon be shipping SSDs which are pretty close in capacity to the standard platters which laptops use now. My guess (don’t bet on it, though) is that we’ll be seeing 500GB SSDs by 2009. They will also ship 32GB and 64GB versions at the same time. No word on pricing just yet.

written by Tyler Regas \\ tags: mobile, technology