Video: Cat Vs. iPad

Eric Rautio's cat Iggy goes paws-on with the iPad and discovers he loves the Noby Noby Boy app almost as much as we do. Time to add an entire new species to the list of who Noby is for? [via TPHD]

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SkullHyphy

Great, now the cats really will be downloading kitty pr0n onto our computers!
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/07/accused-florida-man.html
Irene Delse

Apple, toys for mammals since 1976.
donniebnyc

So how did the screen hold up against cat claws?
- Anonymous
  
  It doesn’t use its claws when it plays with the screen, my cat does the same with my Ipod during i’m watching videos, there’s no danger !
GyroMagician

My favourite part is when the cat looks at the camera with that “Stop making me do this…can I go yet?” expression.
tomrigid

I can haz styluz?
Anonymous

My stupid owner thinks thinks I am so cute, but I’m really just trying to cover up after iPooed.
E-beth

The iTunes store has a free App called “Cat Game” that is a game for cats, as you would expect. It is a laser pointer on a floor background (or other background) for the cat to tap. Turn it on, give to cat, watch! It is too funny.
Lobster

So does the cat speak now? Is it hyperintelligent?
Wordguy

Almost makes me want to get a cat. Almost.
solstone

Yay! Just what the world needed, a $600 cat toy.

Sarcasm aside, that is a pretty cute kitteh.
rp0806

I’m considering buying an iPad just to piss off all of the people b****ing and moaning about the iPad and the iPad posts on BB.
- dculberson
  
  They’re even worse than the steampunk whiners.
dculberson

I loved the little look up to the camera. “You made it boring, bring back the green snake.”

@1, 3: Your diatribe is boring and contemptuous. You may not touch my monkey.
CD

Hi Cat
Vidya108

My cat does the same thing when I show him YouTube videos of little animals. My netbook casing has permanent scratches from when he dug in his fangs, to try to get at the birds he thought were ‘inside’ the computer.
Anonymous

“rp0806 â€¢ #12 â€¢ 07:31 on Wed, Apr.14 â€¢ Reply I’m considering buying an iPad just to piss off all of the people b****ing and moaning about the iPad and the iPad posts on BB. ”

Hey, buy 4 of them. That will REALLY piss us off!!!
stratosfyr

I can’t wait to see what an ape does with one of these.
- Chrs
  
  Break it in half, in a postmodern statement about technology and the destruction of the natural world. We’ll just think it’s angry at its clumsy, non-human hands, though, so the message won’t get through.
LiudvikasT

I cant wait for the time, when technology advances to the point when we can increase cats intelligence to human level, I’d love to talk to cats :)
Anonymous

Is that cat not SCRATCHING that thing???? Kind of expensive to become a cat toy – cute vid, though.
BookGuy

This cat was totally going to be a maker or a software engineer, but now? No more.

Look at the evil the iPad hath wrought. JUST LOOK AT IT!
- dculberson
  
  That is what the look to the camera meant! “Where the f*** is the C compiler??”
  
  (or, to put it in kitteh, “I can haz C++?”)
- SamSam
  
  “Noooo where mah command prompt?”
  
  Man, kitties hate walled gardens.
avt_tor

Pawsome.
Daemon

Most practical use for one so far.
Anonymous

“Play ‘em off, iPad Cat!”

*runs for cover*
Anonymous

Go Go Krazy Kitty!
Anonymous

aaaaand it has become a mere cat toy…
Anonymous

Hmm. I think I need to upload the video of my parrot playing “Blowfish” on my iTouch. He seems to have a better grasp of the game strategy than this cat.
Hamish Grant

ballsy, letting a clawed kitty use your iPad!
Anonymous

Does anyone else see the danger of ipad fail with a pawing cat and cup of coffee an inch away from the machine?
Anonymous

Cute!!!!!
Anonymous

the music i’m listening to made this seem way more epic
XerxesQados

Cleverly, the videographer had Keyboard Cat play the video off.
2k

Why’s it not coming out the ends?
holtt

Clearly there is a market for apps for cats. Imagine say a big bug that walks around slowly. If you tap near it, it runs away. Tap on it, and it’s “pinned” for a bit and wiggles. As soon as you let go, it runs away again.

Also as perhaps eluded to above by another poster, there is also a need for a “My cat rates your app” website.
darren

Cute kitty.
benher

Pah! Kittens these days! Back when I was a youngin’ our yarn was made of thread! THREAD y’hear?!
- Felton
  
  My cat had to make do with a slide rule.
Chas44

iPad, brought to you by Confuse-A-Cat, Ltd.

(How’s that for a dated reference…?)
GraemeM

Is it insured for cat scratches on the screen?

Give the cat an iPhone, then it can ring and torment the dog.
ChrisGiarmo

srsly? are they paying you to post this stuff?

ps – love how Xeni’s praise article is a “feature.” where’s Cory’s legit crit?
- zikman
  
  what? you don’t remember how long cory’s article was repped up top? what with the upside jobs holding an iPad image and all…
- Anonymous
  
  It’s obvious that the cat is an iPad hater. True cat owners will recognize Iggy’s paw action is that same instinctive action used in burying waste in the litter box. Thus, Iggy, symbolically, is making the statement that he thinks the iPad is a piece of cat poopie.
- teapot
  
  Oh my god…. can’t we all just enjoy a cat doing something amusing? I hate Jobs’ little power games as well, but this is friggin’ awesome!
  
  Just enjoy it and shut yer cake hol.
Anonymous

Very cute, but be careful — I’ve seen that scratching/digging motion before. In conjunction with a litterbox.
rautiocination

not warner crocker’s cat, it is mine :/

i even e-mailed this to the bb tip line. i guess random blog posts get precedence!
- Brandon Boyer
  
  Woop — sorry about that! Duly edited!
  
  @ChrisGiarmo: how much do I want to live in a world where Steve Jobs calls me up to say “I’ve got a hundred bucks and a YouTube of a cat: you know what to do.”
  - ChrisGiarmo
    
    point taken.
    
    and now :
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNXBa_ZBvFQ
  - rautiocination
    
    cheers man! thanks everyone! stay tuned for my-cats-app-reviews.com! ;D
franko

my cats love the koi pond app. ^_^