Finally: A Good Use For The iPad

We’ve all watched enough YouTube clips to know that the iPad is simple enough for a toddler or 99-year old woman to use, and that cats love iPads while they send dogs running for the door. But the newest iPad YouTube hit shows us something we may not have known before–iPads are great in the kitchen!

A man by the name of Alan Daly has actually built an iPad into his kitchen cabinet so that he and his wife can read, listen to music, watch news and movies and look up recipes while cooking. Alan demonstrates his new kitchen installment in his YouTube video, ‘My Kitchen iPad’. Alan told TUAW in an email, “My wife thought I was nuts – until she saw the finished product.”

Alan shows how he attached the iPad to his cabinet in his Flickr photostream. He made a hole in the cabinet with a jigsaw and attached the iPad with a simple wooden mount in the back. The device can be easily slid in or out, and when the cabinet is closed it looks absolutely amazing! Before trying this at home, make sure you know what you are doing. Alan bought a replacement door for the cabinet before getting started to avoid a kitchen catastrophe.

The video has received over 1,200 views since it was uploaded to YouTube yesterday, many of which happened over the last hour. As more and more people see what Alan has done, maybe they will start coming up with their own ideas for how to use the iPad. Do you think people will follow in Alan’s footsteps and mount their iPads in the kitchen? Maybe Apple will take a hint and start selling iPad mounting kits so users can put their iPads up in their bedrooms, living rooms and bathrooms as well! Where would you mount your iPad?

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