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One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad
- antimora 15y agorelated but happened to me: once I tried to open my house door with my car remote key =)
- cellularmitosis 15y agothat happened to steven wright too. except that his house started. so he took it for a drive. parked it on the freeway and screamed at everyone to get off of his driveway.
- megablast 15y ago27 year old thinks his house is a broken car?
- mahmud 15y ago31 year old tries to "full screen" wife.
- codezero 15y agoAlso, possibly a 1-year old kid who likes to poke and grab things.
- sukuriant 15y agoExcept grab things without grabbing them. The kid was doing the pinch gesture without pinching the paper. It doesn't look like grabbing to me, so much as gesturing. The paper would have crinkled if it had been grabbing.
- ethank 15y agoMy kid tries to pinch zoom everything. Laptops, books, television remotes.
- callmevlad 15y agoSame thing here. My daughters (1 and 2) walk up to the TV, and try to swipe to the next photo or touch the video to pause it.
- ethank 15y agoWhat amazes me is how GOOD my son is on the iPad and iPhone. He turned 2 in June. He can unlock the phone, knows the passcode, can get into any app and knows the "flick" gesture. On his iPad, he can navigate to his Sesame Street episodes or random Pixar movies. I learned computers on an Apple IIe and a Mac, and this is basically that for him. To think that by next year we'll have retina iPads, by the time he's "using" computers for things like school, it'll be like really bright paper.
- whatusername 15y agoI learned computers on a Mac+. At two I could load the disk into the drive, load up Paint Shop Pro, "paint" a painting. The lesson isn't that iDevice's (or apple products) are amazingly intuitive -- it's that 2 year olds are quite smart and good at learning/playing/exploring.
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- nvarsj 15y agoI'm around small kids a lot, and I'd be impressed if a 2 year old could operate a keyboard/mouse. An iPad on the other hand... no problem. I think it does say something about the intuitiveness of a touch screen.
- ethank 15y agoYou weren't watching and consuming full length feature films on a Mac+. Neither was I. Context is one thing (i.e., mouse, keyboard, MacPaint) and I agree that two year olds adapt to context amazingly. Media is another thing entirely though. Context and media in intuitive ways will have far reaching ramifications.
- alexholehouse 15y agoThe cognitive leap to associate moving a mouse or keyboard (in your hand) with stuff going down on a screen is significant compared to just touching something you see and it moves. The former represents how we typically interact with a computer, the later how we interact with everything else. It's actually kind of amazing that Apple made both those interaction types - Apple 2 was THE FIRST time you had a keyboard + screen, and the iPhone/iPad are(perhaps more arguably) the most successful implementations of touch screen interaction.
- jodrellblank 15y agoApple 2 was THE FIRST time you had a keyboard + screen I raise you Douglas Englebart and a decade earlier.
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- alexholehouse 15y agoYeah sorry - I clearly should have said in terms of an affordable easy-to-use device for the masses (the same being true for the iPhone/iPad). Edit: Just went a found Engelbart's lecture at Stanford - it's incredible http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html
- georgemcbay 15y ago"Apple 2 was THE FIRST time you had a keyboard + screen" Are you shitting me? Edit: Makes more sense with the 'affordable' qualifier though it is still debatable as a "FIRST".
- alexholehouse 15y agoI'm actually quoting Steve Wozniak, but sorry, I should have made clear I meant for an affordable consumer device. Apologies. Edit: No doubt, to be totally honest it's not an area I really know too much about, I just have Steve shouting "THE FIRST" engraved in my memory from a few years ago...
- baddox 15y agoThe child seems to understand turning pages, strangely enough.
- dbbo 15y agoWhat really bothered me was the uploader credited Steve Jobs with coding something.
- pork 15y agoSo someone on the Internet thinking that Steve Jobs used to code really bothers you? Perspective, friend, perspective...
- dbbo 15y agoNot necessarily this one instance, but many people that I've talked to tend to credit Jobs with many technical achievements, if not everything Apple ever did.
- adriand 15y agoHe also referred to her "OS", which as a human, she does not have: so he was speaking metaphorically.
- dbbo 15y agoI wasn't being 100% direct either. The author still credited, or better yet, blamed Jobs for something he didn't actually do-- design the iPad. It seems pretty common, at least with non-techheads, that "Steve Jobs" is used interchangeably with "Apple".
- pietro 15y agoOn the other hand, it seems pretty common for techheads to misunderstand what "design" is. I'd say Steve Jobs designed the iPad the same way Frank Gehry designs his buildings: by conceptualizing it and sketching the overall design, leaving the details to his aides.
- dbbo 15y agoWhat was the "design" then? A sketch of a really thin tablet PC? That doesn't seem so creative or innovative to me. I think more credit is due to the engineers who brought it to life. Moreover, I haven't actually seen any sketches done by Jobs. I'm not saying they don't exist; I just haven't seen any.
- HaloZero 15y agoWhenever I show a friend a Kindle, their first instinct is to try to turn the page or click a menu option. I think for adults we just assume all electronics are touch screens now.
- grannyg00se 15y agoTo say she thinks the magazine is a broken iPad is quite a leap. There is nothing to indicate that she thinks it is an iPad. And there is nothing to indicate that she thinks it is "broken". She is simply trying familiar gestures on a similar looking media. Give her magazines for the next couple of days and you may find she tries to turn the iPad over looking for other pages. It's not because she thinks the iPad is a broken magazine. It's simple familiarity. First we try what we know. Failing that, we begin to experiment.
- ArcticCelt 15y agoExactly. The only thing that this video proves is that she has the right reaction by analyzing and experimenting with different objects. That's how we learn.
- tptacek 15y agoThe best part of this was when she tested to see if her finger was still working. This kid is awesome.
- lotharbot 15y agoMy son (not quite 2) engages in all these same behaviors. He pokes things, points at things, touches things, checks to make sure his finger is still attached, pokes things some more... and he's been doing it since long before he was allowed to touch the tablet computer. Sometimes when he touches, say, pictures in a newspaper or magazine, he's just trying to get daddy's input (same as when he touches something in a board book.) He touches a picture, and I'll say "it's a blue car!" or "what a furry kitty!" You might mistake it for "thinking the newspaper is a broken tablet", but not for long.
- wnight 15y agoWe're all born scientists. Then religion and TV happen.
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- georgemcbay 15y agoNotice that the kid is interacting with the magazine outside but the iPad inside. Ergo, the iPad is a magazine that is broken when you try to use it outside in the sunlight. (This is mostly a joke, but if we want to go assigning meaning willy-nilly to these videoclips, this one fits too).
- dot 15y agoThe other day I was reading a printed version of the NY Times and I caught myself trying to flick scroll a column with my index finger once I reached the fold. It made me smile.
- techdemic 15y agoWhat does a one-year old do on an iPad (or other tablet for that matter)? For those who are parents--are there certain apps/games you let your young ones play around on? Or, is the behavior demonstrated by the child in the video learned primarily by way of observation?
- robterrell 15y agoDefinitely. There's a number of blogs dedicated to apps for toddlers. Not sure about a one-year-old, but my two-year-old was finger painting, dragging letters onto words, and rearranging dinosaur parts, and browsing YouTube for videos of trash trucks (he got his older sisters to enter the search terms). My original iPad is basically a dedicated kid computer. The older kids write school papers on it (Pages + keyboard dock), the younger kids play games (educational and otherwise) and sometimes Netflix videos. We do have an XO laptop, and it only gets dug out of the bin when one of the kids is playing "going to work" and needs a faux laptop to lug.
- ianferrel 15y agoI love the idea that little kids who love watching garbage trucks are now getting their older siblings to go find Youtube videos of them.
- nitrogen 15y agoI know of one 1yo who loves scrolling back and forth on pages of text on his parents' iPods.
- jasonkester 15y agoLook up an app called "Rattle". My kid figured that one out at six weeks. Also, "pocket pond" style things work pretty well with infants. Basically anything where stuff happens when you touch the screen. Though it helps to pick apps where it's difficult to pull up blocking menus. It's amazing how quickly a random-clicking toddler will find his way to the purchase screen in the App Store in most apps.
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- runn1ng 15y agoShe is not very effective in using that iPad, though.
- crikli 15y agoYou should see my niece, 18 months old. She can unlock my iPad and find Netflix or Angry Birds as fast as I can. Now of course she needs help past that, but still.
- jameshart 15y agoA week or so after first encountering a Kinect, with its combination of gesture and voice recognition, my little boy was using a restaurant toilet with a touch-free flush, and after realising that it had flushed itself in response to his standing up, he turned round and said "toilet: flush!" to see if it also had voice control. My son - admittedly the child of geeks, so maybe a little ahead of the curve - is growing up in a world where screens have always responded to touch; where devices can usually react to being tilted or moved; where you can control things through speaking, or gesturing.
- gsivil 15y agoReady for oblivion: once I had a (sleeping)dream that I was using the mouse to touch and move things in my room.
- spenrose 15y agoAs a parent, I would be very wary of exposing a child that small to any screen for extended periods of time.
- c1sc0 15y agoAs a soon-to-be-parent: why?
- bestes 15y agoI think because "screens" are 2-D and little kids need to learn that things are 3-D. Also, screens don't have texture. Everything on a screen is artificial, which is fine once you understand what it is trying to represent, but not before.
- spenrose 15y agohttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/health/19babies.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/health/19babies.html And yes, it's not clear that iPads are a problem. But it's not clear that they aren't, and you are messing around with their brain wiring.
- dangoldin 15y agoI remember reading an article of the difference between 2 year olds and 3 year olds. A two year old will see a picture of a shoe and try to put their foot in it whereas a 3 year old realizes that the picture is only a picture. I imagine the 1 year old in the video is also falling into the 2 year old trap. But as people have commented this is just how learn and how our brains develop.
- rymedia 15y agoThe psychological development of children is amazing. If only they became potty trained sooner.
- minikomi 15y agoI haven't gone so far as to do it physically, but I have felt the subconscious niggle to pinch-zoom something in a magazine a little while after a heavy browse of tumblr or ffffound... Very odd & disconcerting.
- geon 15y agoPointing, swiping and pinching is perfectly normal for a 1 year old. It has nothing to do with touhcscreens.
- hermannj314 15y agoWhen my daughter was one years old she thought the box that the iPad came in was a broken iPad. I didn't jump to any conclusions about the superfluousness of packaging or my daughter's inability to understand a world with boxes. I did, however, tell her to think outside of the box. She didn't get the joke. Probably because she was one. Also, the joke wasn't that funny.
- dmarinoc 15y agoLast Christmas we bought a laptop for my nephew. Few days later came to my wife to ask her how to save a file. - You just need to click on the "diskette" icon. - Aunt, what's a "diskette"? I bet in few years most UX designers will use the Dropbox logo instead of a diskette icon to show where you need to click to save a file :D
- paperwork 15y agomy nephew, before he could speak full sentences would point to things and say "click." "Click" was his all-encompassing verb. When he wanted cereal, he stood next to the fridge, pointed up to the cereal box and screamed "cliiiiiiiik."