100 year old woman with impaired vision is thrilled with her new iPad.

[onehandle]

[GentryDixon]

1. How wonderful.

My Mom was scribbling notes of her childhood in the last years of her life on paper tablets. How wonderful this would have been for her.

This is such a feel good story. Thanks for posting.

[Snotcicles]

2. Bravo.nt

[MgtPA]

3. My mother-in-law is 90, and we recently bought her an iPad

She has macular degeneration, but with the zoom feature and brightness controls, she's able to use it. She lives on the West coast, and we're on the East, so we use Facetime quite a bit. It's really wonderful.

[freshwest]

4. I love this. And one of these days I'll break down and get one!

[babylonsister]

10. Haha! Me, too! nt

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. If she can teach me to use itunes I'll pay her $100,000. n/t

[onehandle]

7. iTunes is largely awful.

Under their latest, and improved UI, it's 12 year old technology. There are user and technical necessities that have made them cling to it for this long.

It's their oldest infrastructure, but there are hints that things may change soon.

[Smarmie Doofus]

8. Thanks. It's not just me then. ITunes makes feel like I'm *200* years old. n/t

[freshwest]

13. I don't have any problems with mine. Meet me in the Mac forum. I love it.

I'm not a geek but I've just about got it all figured out, even though I haven't updated for a long time. I've got about 100 gig in my iTunes library and I have an older iPod.

I'm going to be copying it to a 1TB hard drive to use on my laptop with having to load it on the laptop to save space. All I have to do is tell the laptop what the pathway is. I'll be calling Apple to get walked through that.

[onehandle]

15. Do go to the Mac forum. I was really talking about the guts of it.

The User Interface is getting better and better.

[Sherman A1]

6. A friend bought one for his 96 year old Grandma

for Christmas. She wanted one so she could read the bible. I think this is a great thing for both of these fine folks.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

9. She's adorable. More power to her!

Has me wondering if my vision-impaired mom could use an iPad...

[cyberswede]

11. Sweet! nt

[Cronus Protagonist]

12. Great video - every centegenarian should have an iPad!

Still, the Kindle would probably meet her needs better, and it's half the price!

[enough]

14. My 97 year-old FIL had a beautiful imac with a HUGE screen (his 3rd Mac)

that allowed him to read the NYTimes, the Nation, and everything else he wanted to read (politics, recipes, weather, email....) in enormous print. When he woke up in the middle of the night, he was on the net checking things out. It is wonderful for vision-impaired people.

[nilram]

16. It is awesome. Happened 3 years ago, when she was only 99.

http://www.oregonlive.com/lake-oswego/index.ssf/2010/04/video_of_99-year-old_lake_oswego_woman_with_ipad_goes_viral.html

On edit: BTW, she's a poet, and a graduate of Reed College. Her limerick on the iPad --

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.