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Guest Blog:
iPad, Unplugged

By Jeff Stimpson

When the battery of my 14-year-old Alex’s iPad runs low an image comes on the screen that I’m sure I’ll see in my own mind in my last moments: a dark battery shape with a single thin red stripe, and beneath it all a lightning bolt that seems to say, “Just a little more time, please.”

“Daddy! iPad!”

“Alex, you’ve got to plug it in. It is dead. You’ve got to plug it in.”

“Got to plug it in,” he says, “plug it in.”

He's 14. All he has to do is sit there and give up the privilege of walking around with the thing. Alex isn’t feeling well – hot and sniffly – so he’s just sitting there.... READ MORE

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