One year old thinks magazine is a broken iPad

To say she thinks the magazine is a broken iPad is quite a leap. There is nothing to indicate that she thinks it is an iPad. And there is nothing to indicate that she thinks it is "broken".<p>She is simply trying familiar gestures on a similar looking media.<p>Give her magazines for the next couple of days and you may find she tries to turn the iPad over looking for other pages. It's not because she thinks the iPad is a broken magazine. It's simple familiarity. First we try what we know. Failing that, we begin to experiment.

Notice that the kid is interacting with the magazine outside but the iPad inside.<p>Ergo, the iPad is a magazine that is broken when you try to use it outside in the sunlight.<p>(This is mostly a joke, but if we want to go assigning meaning willy-nilly to these videoclips, this one fits too).

A week or so after first encountering a Kinect, with its combination of gesture and voice recognition, my little boy was using a restaurant toilet with a touch-free flush, and after realising that it had flushed itself in response to his standing up, he turned round and said "toilet: flush!" to see if it also had voice control.<p>My son - admittedly the child of geeks, so maybe a little ahead of the curve - is growing up in a world where screens have always responded to touch; where devices can usually react to being tilted or moved; where you can control things through speaking, or gesturing.

My kid tries to pinch zoom everything. Laptops, books, television remotes.

Also, possibly a 1-year old kid who likes to poke and grab things.

Whenever I show a friend a Kindle, their first instinct is to try to turn the page or click a menu option. I think for adults we just assume all electronics are touch screens now.

The child seems to understand turning pages, strangely enough.

The other day I was reading a printed version of the NY Times and I caught myself trying to flick scroll a column with my index finger once I reached the fold.<p>It made me smile.

related but happened to me: once I tried to open my house door with my car remote key =)

When my daughter was one years old she thought the box that the iPad came in was a broken iPad. I didn't jump to any conclusions about the superfluousness of packaging or my daughter's inability to understand a world with boxes.<p>I did, however, tell her to think outside of the box. She didn't get the joke. Probably because she was one. Also, the joke wasn't that funny.

Last Christmas we bought a laptop for my nephew. Few days later came to my wife to ask her how to save a file.<p>- You just need to click on the "diskette" icon. - Aunt, what's a "diskette"?<p>I bet in few years most UX designers will use the Dropbox logo instead of a diskette icon to show where you need to click to save a file :D

What does a one-year old do on an iPad (or other tablet for that matter)?<p>For those who are parents--are there certain apps/games you let your young ones play around on? Or, is the behavior demonstrated by the child in the video learned primarily by way of observation?

I remember reading an article of the difference between 2 year olds and 3 year olds. A two year old will see a picture of a shoe and try to put their foot in it whereas a 3 year old realizes that the picture is only a picture.<p>I imagine the 1 year old in the video is also falling into the 2 year old trap. But as people have commented this is just how learn and how our brains develop.

Pointing, swiping and pinching is perfectly normal for a 1 year old. It has nothing to do with touhcscreens.

The psychological development of children is amazing. If only they became potty trained sooner.

I haven't gone so far as to do it physically, but I have felt the subconscious niggle to pinch-zoom something in a magazine a little while after a heavy browse of tumblr or ffffound... Very odd &#38; disconcerting.

She is not very effective in using that iPad, though.

The cognitive leap to associate moving a mouse or keyboard (in your hand) with stuff going down on a screen is significant compared to just touching something you see and it moves. The former represents how we typically interact with a computer, the later how we interact with everything else.<p>It's actually kind of amazing that Apple made both those interaction types - Apple 2 was THE FIRST time you had a keyboard + screen, and the iPhone/iPad are(perhaps more arguably) the most successful implementations of touch screen interaction.

Ready for oblivion: once I had a (sleeping)dream that I was using the mouse to touch and move things in my room.

As a parent, I would be very wary of exposing a child that small to any screen for extended periods of time.

my nephew, before he could speak full sentences would point to things and say "click." "Click" was his all-encompassing verb. When he wanted cereal, he stood next to the fridge, pointed up to the cereal box and screamed "cliiiiiiiik."

What really bothered me was the uploader credited Steve Jobs with coding something.