Find my iPad app helps 8-year-old catch burglars and $350,000-worth of stolen property

[onehandle]

>> and you lost a lot of items, a couple of ipads. you bought a new one with the insurance money. landon , you didn't like the idea of your stuff being taken. what made you decide to look on the internet and discover there's an app for that?

>> i don't really know. i just wanted to find my ipad, so i just looked it up and i found this app.

>> you found this app and you were able to actually pinpoint where your old ipad was. what do you see on the map? how detailed was it?

>> well, it just showed a big building, so when you went to the satellite view, it showed like a hotel. and when you zoomed in, you could tell it was the ambassador inn.

Video and Transcript of interview with family:

http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/46918209#46918209

[Blue_Tires]

1. I must be crossing over into old fuddy-duddy territory

because I'm amazed an 8-year-old even has an iPad...

Time to run to the apple store -- i can hook my mouse of to it and connect to AOL, right?

[Ian David]

2. My wife has one, but my daughter uses it more than any of us do. n/t

[Initech]

3. You could always get the original ipad:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Why are you promoting republican candidates here?

[Initech]

8. I like what Colbert said the other day:

"Yes ladies and gentleman - Mitt Romney is indeed a lot like an Etch-a-sketch - square and colorless."

[woodsprite]

7. You don't need a mouse. The screen is touch sensitive.

You can use a blue tooth stylus, so maybe a blue tooth mouse would work.

[edbermac]

5. Looks like the Wet Bandits still haven't learned their lesson.

[slackmaster]

9. Darn vigilante wannabe cop kids should just let the police do the police work