The Information Versatile Disk for Removable

The name sounds like pure Engrish, but Information Versatile Disk for Removable is an actual real thing. The idea behind it is to have a universal standard for swappable hard drives so you can pop your hard drive out of your PC and pop it into your car or TV or home entertainment center or another PC. IVDR is backed by LaCie, Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Sanyo, and others, but the very first one, a 20GB model, comes out in Japan later this month from IO Data.