Hi, how's it going? I'm Justin. I live in Brooklyn and design at Virginia Campbell, of Lake Oswego, Ore., suffers from glaucoma, making it extremely difficult to engage in her favorite pastimes: reading and writing. After hearing about the iPad, Campbell, an alumnus of Portland’s Reed College, decided that the tablet could be the tool she needed to get back to enjoying reading and writing. And she was right.
For all the months of bickering and complaining about the iPad it’s important to see that outside the tech industry all these things fall into the hands of real people who don’t care about front-facing cameras, USB inputs, or multi-tasking.
This is why I love technology and design. It brings people joy. It’s fantastic that this woman can just pick up an iPad and start using it to write limericks:
“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.”
(via iPad has ‘changed’ 99-year-old woman’s life | The Digital Home - CNET News)
