Yeah, it’s that unfortunate day today, and I hate it. But I like to make the best of it.

But here’s something that I thought after seeing this: think if each Chess piece linked up to the iPad. Not sure how… can you add Bluetooth to each piece? (That would be a battery nightmare…) Or maybe a RFID 30 pin connector and put RFID tags on each piece? (Not sure how sensitive the iPad screen is, but… oh wait, there are more than 10 pieces per side… I was thinking of putting some unique markings on the bottom of each piece but I’m pretty sure it can only detect up to 10, and even then the screen is capacitive so plastic/felt won’t work…)

Think of the cool interfaces that could be added onto the board, like being able to play with someone far away (I’m talking more along the lines of… mail chess? what was that thing called? “Correspondence chess” it seems.), but more importantly helping the player play better. Or something.

I also saw another image recently of a group of people playing scrabble on their iPhones whilst using the iPad as the main board to place letters. That’s kinda neat.

Lots of interesting possible things, now that a touch screen device doesn’t have to cost a table Surface.

Microsoft Surface was a neat concept, but it wasn’t very good. Nowhere near $500 good.

I hope this post doesn’t start off a list of iPad related posts I’ve been holding back for so long…