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# Unanticipated uses
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/unanticipated-uses/
- Published: 2005-02-11T08:56:59.000Z
- Updated: 2005-02-11T08:56:59.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Collections

Now that people have economical access to large amounts of storage on the iPod new uses are emerging.

> Ratib and his programming partner Dr. Antoine Rosset set about developing a software application that uses the iPod and other off-the-shelf Macintosh equipment to manipulate, manage, and move medical imaging data between departments and workstations. \[[Of MRIs and iPods](https://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/02/wo/wo%5Fhoffman021105.asp?trk=nl&ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]

Reading this I was reminded of Derek Morrison’s nice piece in his blog a while ago about the ‘filling station’:

> What’s kind of interesting here is that we, perhaps, have an emergent model in which various sites on the internet become almost like resource ‘filling stations’ for mobile multi-function devices. \[[Auricle](https://www.bath.ac.uk/dacs/cdntl/pMachine/morriblog%5Fmore.php?id=347%5F0%5F4%5F0%5FM&ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]