Of all the clever and original uses for the iPad we’ve seen in the past months, there was nothing quite like what’s going on with Jozsef Szajer’s iPad. In a video first showed at the iPad 2 keynote, Apple proved that the tablet has been deployed in a variety of markets and segments in 2010: from education to hospitals, enterprise, small businesses, restaurants and musicians the iPad and, most of all, the 65,000 apps that run on it have changed many people’s professional and personal lives. But Szajer, ruling party lawmaker in the European Parliament, is using the device to draft Hungary’s new constitution.
You heard that right. The Hungarian next “magna charta” is being written on the iPad as we speak – we don’t know through which applications exactly, but Szajer says [Google Translation] the best feature of the iPad is its “instant on”, the fact that he doesn’t have to wait for it to load and is always available. This is indeed one of the aspects Apple also heavily promotes on the product’s webpage. Szajer also goes on to specify that he’s writing different drafts on the iPad, reviewing proposals received from fellow parliament members, assistants and citizens and quickly copying and pasting text around as he wants. The new constitution focuses on ” raises the level of public services, greater transparency in public affairs and equal opportunities for citizens to seek new technological solutions”. New solution like the iPad, apparently.
We wish the best of luck (and congratulations) to Szajer in his effort to rewrite the rules with a piece of technology that has already rewritten many tech industry rules. And if he’s going to get an iPad 2, typing should be much better with the lighter and thinner form factor. [via Bloomberg]
