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Viral Video: There Was an Old Woman Who Played With an iPad

While I meant to get this up last week, if you missed it, it is still well worth seeing 99-year-old Virginia Campbell using an iPad.

To put things into perspective, in 1910, right around when she arrived on the planet, the innovation of the day was Thomas Edison demonstrating the first talking motion picture.

And, I can assure you, seeing this is a lot better than cats using the Apple (AAPL) tablet device.

This is apparently a first computer for Campbell, who lives in a retirement home in Oregon. She uses it to read and write gems like this limerick:

To this technology-ninny it’s clear
In my compromised 100th year,
That to read and to write
Are again within sight
Of this Apple iPad pioneer.

How can you not love someone who uses the word “ninny,” so enjoy the video:

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Another gadget you don’t really need. Will not work once you get it home. New model out in 4 weeks. Battery life is too short to be of any use.

— From the fact sheet for a fake product entitled Useless Plasticbox 1.2 (an actual empty plastic box) placed in L.A.-area Best Buy stores by an artist called Plastic Jesus