NHP,
In addition to digitial film and mp3, there is a 3rd category that includes almost everything where tape is used in portable devices. Two that I can think of would be:
1) heart monitors (I wore one for 24 hours).
2) black boxes in commercial airliners. I would expect that every commercial airplane sometime in the future will use flash memory for recording data. It will probably be CF.
Most portable heart monitors use flash memory. They certainly could be made much smaller with a CF card or MMC.
***One area I think would be useful for increasing CF (CF slot) awareness is actually the LCD projectors used primarily in corporate settings. It would allow Joe Pinstripe and John Wingtip to go cross-country with a presentation in his pocket and use a portable device like a laptop or WinCE device to edit the presentation as needed. It would also be another angle through which the population at-large is made aware of the beauty of CF.
***I would also like to see CF used as a vehicle to promote pre-loaded information such as phone directories, animated yellow pages, product lists, dictionaries, maps, drug compendia (PDR)... whereby the card cost is defrayed by selling the content contained. Likewise, the seller can additionally customize the card as a vehicle for advertising either with a private label or by the content itself.
An example would be Merck purchasing a couple million cards to preload a hospital drug formulary which could be used by physicians (drug type, usage, dosage, contraindications, side effects,...) on a handheld device. The cards could be offered as a "freebie" to the user while the card content could include drug logos the manufacturer wishes to promote or a company watermark on each page.
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