iPads can ruin your marriage and your eyesight

Martin Courtney
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There is something peculiar, even sinister, about the iPad's ability to change people's behaviour

I have a friend whose wife recently threatened to leave him after she was regularly woken up in the middle of the night to find his iPad propped against her back while he checked email from colleag...

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