As if the iPad references to hygiene products weren't bad enough.

But seriously, the iPad allows people to interact with Information Technology while completely vertical. Or above their heads. On your back, or just about any position imaginable. Mobility, interfacing info on the move, is enhanced, dexterity requirements reduced, visibility greatly improved versus the Touch and traditional mobile devices.

The iPad creates entirely new categories of ways to do IT. About anywhere a pencil and paper worked, the iPad will work. Clipboards and running versus iPad and wifi.

At the Restaurant

Can your server type in an order to the kitchen on a netbook? I guarantee restaurants can copy the "push the Big Mac icon" fast food interfaces and extend the concept to their own menu items. Speed and accuracy both benefit. With the smooth, easy to clean surface, restaurants may want to attach these to a table or wall and let patrons order direct. With a couple of taps on the big screen, diners may split the bill exactly, calculate exchange rates and tips, review local attractions of interest. All from the comfort of their booth or table. Extend hospitality through technology.

In Hospitals

Remember the first time you saw a keyboard in the form of a notebook computer come in to the exam room, and thought "yeach"? Maybe it is just IT people that fully comprehend, but keyboards hold the distinction of being some of the dirtiest places on earth. Toilet rims are clean in comparison, because they can be cleaned. Start prying keys off an old keyboard to get an idea of how "nasty" accumulates over time in hard to reach places.

Health care workers now have the "clean" alternative. Plus they can interact with information while on the move. No need to sit, squat, or hunt down a flat surface. Talk about a time saver.

On Your Bicycle

Stationary bikes and big screen TV at the fitness club may keep you in shape, but no fresh air. Now you can watch movies, catch up on family photos, review presentations, follow twitter streams, while pumping away out on the open road. Could it be done with a netbook? Maybe kind of. But with a big touch screen, and a standard form factor for accessories manufacturers to target, IT mobility becomes simple.

Classrooms, Waiting In Lines, Shop Floors, anywhere you have to be able to do IT Standing Up.

Mobility, dexterity, screen size. Never before anything like it. Now Apple needs to cut the Air in half along the axis of the hinge, so it can be slipped into an inside jacket pocket, and there will not be much left to conquer in human interfaces for information access.

From the iPod Shuffle which weighs less than an ounce and can talk, right on up to some of the most powerful multimedia servers on earth, Apple has the hardware part of the human interface to technology covered. And their operating system seems to be doing a good job of keeping up.

UPDATE:

Accessibility options include voice over - making text talk to you. Ding, email is received. Then with automation, the iPad can read the message to you while the device is still in your pocket. http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/accessibility.html

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