Apple working on droppable iPod drives
We know it's heresy among the Apple faithful to even suggest that one might be so displeased with one's iPod as to throw it on the ground in disgust, but since occasionally the little bundles of joy do get dropped, Apple has applied for a patent for a portable media player hard drive that can detect when it is falling and stop reading or writing to the drive in order to prevent (or at least minimize) data loss or damage. Yes, IBM introduced something similar last year (and how non-catchy were they when they tried to compare it to an airbag for hard drives?), but Apple's patent filing actually predates that by a few months.
[Thanks, Tyler]
