NewerTech has launched two new stands designed for the iPad and Mac Mini that are made from aircraft grade aluminium. They are called the NuStand Alloy. The iPad version of the stand weighs just 3.5 ounces and allows your iPad to rest at a 15 degree angle for easy viewing and control.

The NuStand Alloy designed for the Mac Mini is the same weight as the iPad version but fits the new 2010 Mac Mini. This one is coated with a rubberised finish to protect your Mac and has a silicone center to grip the Mac securely and keep it safe.

Most serious computer enthusiasts have a wide range of HDDs, SSDs, and optical drives that are too old to really be used in a new machine and still work and it’s a shame to just trash them. So they collect dust. If only there was a way to easily be able to use it if needed. Well, now there is.

NewerTech has a new adapter that will help. As long as you have a USB 3.0 port on your computer. The adapter is called the USB 3.0 Universal Drive Adapter. It takes any SATA HDD or SSD and allows it to be used on the PC via the USB 3.0 port. The adapter also has IDE ribbon connectors.

NewerTech is going green with the announcement of a more eco-friendly version of its Guardian MAXimus line of RAID-1 storage drives. It is called the NewerTech Guardian MAXimus eMAX and you’ll find it pricing around $550.

The NewerTech Guardian MAXimus eMAX offers up 1TB of RAID-1 storage. NewerTech says this drive is more eco-friendly by being RoHS-certified via unmentioned energy efficiency technologies. This reportedly offer a 15 percent power savings and up to a 50 percent power reduction versus similar 1TB external drives.

We’ve seen some pretty handy adapters to connect your internal drives, externally to your computer with things like the Stage Rack and this USB to SATA adapter but none of them match the convenience of the USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter from NewerTech. This adapter not only connects SATA drives to your computer’s USB port, but it will handle ATA/IDE drives as well.

Anytime I upgrade computers or just upgrade my drive I always keep the old one because inevitably a day will come where I want something off of it that I thought I would never need again. Opening up the computer case is a real pain and adapters like this are well worth the money in the time it saves alone. The adapter works with all 2.5″ laptop drives, 3.5″ desktop drives and will connect any existing 5.25″ drives such as CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs or removable Iomega Zip drives.