Yesterday at E3 I met with a company called Fusion-io. I was largely unfamiliar with the company, save for that recent bit of news about Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak coming on board as chief scientist. That's no small bit of news, of course. While the he's been busy with extended polo games, d-list dating, and reality show flirtation, the Woz was more or less in retirement when it came to running tech companies.

At the time, Fusion-io was primarily manufacturing products for the SMB world, devices aimed at reducing the bottleneck on servers. With Woz in the picture, however, the company has taken a turn toward consumers, offering up the ioXtreme. The company was showcasing the product at E3, with help from pro-gamer Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel.

The device sits in a computer's PCI Express slot, in order to "[fill] the performance gap between RAM and disk drives." I didn't get a chance to benchmark the thing at the show, but Funsion-io assures me that it's blazingly fast, and has definite applications for those doing video editing or 3D rendering.

There are applications for games, too, of course, but at $895, it's probably best to wait until the price comes down on the thing. The ioXtreme is set for a July release.