IPad 3 Tech Makes Windy City Traveling a Breeze

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The last time I took a trip to the Windy City – the home of U.S. Green Technology – I carried with me 45 Ken Follett and Stephen King novels, 3,000 songs and 10 feature-length movies – all in my black and white Coach shoulder bag. The novel kept me occupied on my way to Chinatown on the Red Line, while Adele kept me entertained while taking the Green Line to Schaumburg for a night in the Middle Ages at Medieval Times. It’s funny how a small 9-inch-by-7-inch gadget such as an iPad 3 can do so much in the palm of a person’s hand.

The iPad 3 gadget is like no other – how else could you stay plugged into pop culture by watching movies on an LED display screen, listening to music and reading the latest E! Online news while also staying plugged into your own e-mail and remaining friendly toward the environment?

While in Chicago, whether I was walking, riding the rails or hopping a bus – all while trying to navigate around the big North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit on May 19 – the iPad 3 was the one constant: I knew exactly where to go thanks to the built-in assisted GPS and easy access to Google Maps, and online breaking news kept me up-to-date on the goings on of the summit downtown. In other words, navigating the Windy City on one of the busiest days this year simply was a breeze using the IPad 3.

Sure, a smartphone does the trick when trying to surf the Web or listen to your favorite tune, but the iPad 3 far exceeds anything the smartphone can do. Firstly, it gets a bit laborious to keep having to use two fingers to blow up a piece of text on the phone’s resistive touch screen, and I almost have to squint to watch a video. With the iPad 3, all of the tasks I perform on my home laptop – the tasks I take for granted – are made effortless.

Perhaps one of the top perks of this favorite gadget of mine is that its battery lasts about 12 hours – so I never had to recharge once during my big city adventure. In addition, the iPad 3 does not get hot as a laptop does – a welcome bonus on a day when a mini skort and spaghetti strap shirt still weren’t quite cool enough for the 90-degree-Fahrenheit temperatures of the early summer day.

Of course, the aspect of the iPad 3 I most enjoy is the fact that it is green: It is far thinner than the first iPad, which means fewer materials were used during the manufacturing of this eco-friendly gadget. The device’s long battery life also surpasses the strict requirements of Energy Star, another U.S. Green Technology-supported reason to get the increasingly popular tech gadget.

The next time I am in the Windy City, I already know who my go-to-guy is, and I know I’ll never be bored or lost.

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