Video of 99-year-old woman using Apple iPad goes viral

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Video of 99-year-old woman using Apple iPad goes viral

"A 99-year-old Lake Oswego woman stars in a YouTube video that’s gone viral," Lynne Terry reports for The Oregonian. "Virginia Campbell sits on a sofa in her apartment in Mary’s Woods Retirement Community" using her new Apple iPad.

"Campbell, who graduated from Reed College in the early 1930s with a bachelor’s in English literature, has always been an avid reader," Terry reports. "But she suffers from glaucoma, making it difficult to read."

Terry reports, "Now she’s reading books on the iPad and writing limericks on it as well. 'The thing that’s so neat is there’s nothing between you and the screen,' Adelsheim said. 'You can enlarge the print, and it has a much brighter screen so you can read on it more easily than with a regular computer screen.'

"Campbell, widow of former Lake Oswego Mayor C. Herald Campbell, has never owned a computer before — or a Kindle," Terry reports. "But when she heard all the hype about the iPad she wanted one."

Terry reports, "Campbell actually wrote a tribute in appreciation of her newfound freedom from the frailties of old age."

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.

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndkIP...layer_embedded

[ClaireL]

Bless her! I think that is so moving and wonderful! Man, I'm happy for her.

I think of my own senior citizen mother, I show her cute videos on my iPad and she loves it. I'm going to try to get her to play Checkers with me on my iPad too.

[Dillenger]

First the Wii to get some of our older folks bowling, and now the iPad. Good deal, and I hope she enjoys her new iPad.

[vini-vidi-vici]

The stupid Oregonian now thinks the iPad is a mobile device... I think this just started, as it was fine last week. Anyway, it doesn't work correctly, and you can't read anything on the iPad anymore. I hope they get this fixed!

[pvmacguy]

That's awesome! Great to see the iPad is so simple that even the older crowd can use them easily.

[vini-vidi-vici]

Originally Posted by vini-vidi-vici

The stupid Oregonian now thinks the iPad is a mobile device... I think this just started, as it was fine last week. Anyway, it doesn't work correctly, and you can't read anything on the iPad anymore. I hope they get this fixed!

Come to think of it, that lady probably cant read the article they wrote about her!

[H00513R]

Good stuff! She had a good limerick too!