iPad travel

Some little things amaze me. If you take them for granted, you aren't really thinking about them. This morning I fired up my iPhone, clicked on a link in an email, and was shown where my iPad is going to spend it's day.


On a plane.

This is a minor, amusing bit of tech fun that is convenient to shipper and customer, and keeps tabs on the billions of dollars worth of products that are in what was formerly the limbo world of "in transit". Shipping.

Another thing about this that amazes me is that we move goods all over the globe in a clever puzzle of adding value and connecting markets to raw materials. If only I could trace the bauxite in my iPad's case...