People often wonder where new ideas come from. It has been my experience that new ideas come from everywhere. One source is watching what people do with existing products. There is nowhere that this is more true than in the tech community. Just watch how people use, abuse and rearrange existing products can give you ideas for new products and applications. This morning on the web I found a person who used four iPod Shuffles to make a RAID. RAID is an acronym that stands for Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks. It is normally used in computer servers to make large disks out of smaller disks and to add some degree of data protection by storing the data simltaniously more than one disk. If done right you can have one drive fail completely and not loose any data...