Unless you haven't seen a teenager for 5 years, it's a pretty sure thing you've witnessed an iPod in action. But what do they do and how can they help the biotech business? The word iPod of course refers to Apple Corp's portable audio player that allows users to store hundreds of hours of audio in an ever shrinking handheld box. Now those of us between 35 and 45 may say, "so what? Our generation started this - think Sony Walkman." We can certainly claim that our urge to get funky while riding purpleMalvern Star-dragster bicycles helped stimulate the world of portable audio, but we didn't have the technology to put it all on a tiny circuit board and share files instantly around the globe.
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