Since it’s clear that no one wants to read about anything but the iPad today, here’s a video of a guy destroying one with a baseball bat. There’s not much to learn here, except that iPads apparently are not strong enough to withstand the repeated blows from a blunt instrument. But the video is more intriguing for the questions it raises than those it answers. For instance, what type of person waits in line for hours and plunks down $500 for an iPad, parks himself in front of a line of consumers waiting for their own iPad and then beats it to a pulp? Is this performance art? If so, what is the artist trying to say? Perhaps it’s a statement about materialism in the 21st century? Or maybe it’s just a dumb guy with lots of money who needs the attention.
—Posted by Todd Wasserman