Apple's iPod may just turn out to be your best traveling companion. And that's not just because it can keep you from getting bored with all the music and videos it can store but also because it may also serve as your airplane's flight data recorder, a.k.a. black box.

LoPresti SpeedMerchants is looking into integrating Apple's white wonder into the avionics systems of their Fury piston aircraft.

Acting as a hard disk, the iPod is expected to record over 500 hours of flight time data, which may be used for system monitoring, training, and (knock on wood) crash investigation. Exactly what type of data the iPod will store has not been revealed.