iPad: Sorry, Steve Jobs -- MAD TV beat you to it
- January 27, 2010 2:43 PM |
- By Arts Online
The sketch comedy show MAD TV has some fun with their version of the iPad. (Fox/YouTube)
The world's abuzz today with news of the iPad, the latest life-changing device from Steve Jobs and his band of wacky Apple elves. But in all the commotion over this cutting-edge technological development, we've lost sight of one important fact: the iPad is old news.
Back in the summer of 2006, the jokers at MAD TV unveiled their own, er... personal electronic tool, which they dubbed the iPad, in a sketch that parodied both those ubiquitous iPod commercials and the cringe-inducing chipperness of feminine hygiene ads. [WARNING: The content of the following clip is somewhat racy.]
Not bad, huh? Though I guess it didn't offer the same assortment of fancy apps.
--Sarah Liss
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HAHAHA !
Still waiting on the iRack.