iPad helps scientists

Written by

Joel Mathis, Macworld:

It wasn’t so long ago that Chris Grant would regularly take a whole laboratory’s worth of equipment with him into the wilderness. These days, he just takes an iPad.

This must be wrong. The iPad is only for consumption.



  • @ChristoDeluxe

    Science is like discovering things that were already there, so these people aren’t really “creating” anything at all, just observing stuff they didn’t make themselves.

    So, content consumption only.

    • http://twitter.com/Moeskido Moeskido

      Yeah, you’re right. He’s not doing any serious work like gathering field data, taking notes, or generating lab reports. He should probably get a tablet with a “real” operating system that can run Word or Excel.

    • http://www.tumblr.com/blog/his-divine-shadow His Shadow

      That’s some fine sarcasm there.

      At least it should be.