The iPad And Velcro, A Match Made In Hell

This is a response to this article.

Watch this video first.

Velcro’ing anything in your car that blocks an airbag means if it deploys, the iPad will be flung at a speed so fast it could literally lodge itself into the skull of the passenger, killing the person instantly. If you’re driving solo and the bag deploys, it could deflect off the seat and crack you right in the head, killing you instantly.
Self-adhesive Velcro usually has adhesive that is so strong that if you place it on any wall in the house, taking it off would take the paint, varnish and/or sealant right with it.
Why would you Velcro an iPad to a window to check the weather when you could just LOOK OUTSIDE?
Placing an iPad over a stove means that any time you cook there, all the splattering will get all over that lovely screen, ruining it in short order. Note in the video that the person using the stove is not cooking anything.
Placing an iPad on the ceiling is completely pointless because you cannot make out anything legibly from that distance.
Placing an iPad on the gas tank of a motorcycle means it is completely exposed to the sun, and can throw a reflection RIGHT IN YOUR FACE. Remember, it has a glossy screen. Can you say “hazard”? Trust me, there’s a very good reason why 99% of all GPS devices made do not use glossy screens.
Last but not least, remember that super-strong adhesive I spoke of? You just wrecked the back of your iPad with it.

Do not, repeat, do not Velcro your iPad to anything. You may be tempted to do it should you buy one. Don’t. Make a stand out of a coat hanger instead (and if one were really smart, you could modify that into a wall hanger that looks a million times better than two ugly strips).

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Jake
I agree that most of the suggestions in the video are not very practical but then at least it’s snappily produced and full of original ideas, unlike this PCMech article which has nothing original to say at all.
Naysayers are a dime a dozen on the Internet – c’mon you can do better than this. How about a list of interesting things to do with the iPad that WOULD pass the nanny brigade? Or is that perhaps a little harder to do…..

http://www.richmenga.com Rich Menga
Maybe if Apple can get iPads made that doesn’t cause the Chinese workers who made them to kill themselves, I’d say nicer things about the product.

Jason
….and of course I’m now doing (see my previous comment) exactly what I was condemning the article for ! It’s so easy to criticise the efforts of others rather than say something positive isn’t it?
Therefore I withdraw my comment as I’m not sure it adds anything useful. Oh well.
http://joshlucy.info josh parsons
Why would anyone buy a ipad in the first place all they are is a big iphone which also sucks all you can do with it is what they say you can. I’ve seen no actual uses that you can except read a book in bed but you already can do that with your iphone, smartphone, cellphone, or a book. Everyone says they’ll get one if it gets below $500.00 but their already is one its called a netbook
David Kennedy
ROTFL. How many preppy iPad users just freaked out seeing a glob of velcro applied to the back of the thing. Priceless!
David M
Not putting an iPad in a stupid place also applies to all electronic devices including cell phones, PDA’s etc, laptops etc
That’s why we have Ram Mounts…so our electronic devices can be attached securely in logical and safe places.
http://www.ram-mount.com/
http://www.colonelradioshow.co.uk GeaF
I just think you are taking the whole thing a tad too seriously.
It seems to me to be a bit tongue in cheek anyway, with the usage on a motorbike, the sticking on the window etc., it isn’t exactly a serious ad. Although they might have been trying to be serious: it is entirely subjective.
I would like to think that most people are not that stupid and do not need to be told, either in the ad, or in this blog, that putting things over an air-bag means those things will hit you first!
You have much better articles.
Kidd
Number 1′s logic could easily be applied for every idiot putting their feet on the dash of a car. I see it daily, and yeah, I really do want to see the airbags go off, just once, to really know how bad the damage would be when someone knees their self in the face at the speed of an airbag.
Yeah, that was a little off topic. For something good to do with an iPad, ask Daniel Tosh. That guy is full of good ideas.