Clay Shirky Documents Harrowing Crash with iPad 2

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When best-selling tech author Clay Shirky tweets “lucky to be alive. Always wear your seat belt!” he gets our attention.


The pic above shows an accident between a bus and a car taken in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

No word on whether there were any injuries involved, we’ll keep you posted.

Update: fortunately, there were no injuries, Shirky says.

Shirky snapped it with the iPad 2, which, as you may remember I figured would never have a rear-facing camera and that if it did no one would use it for pics on the fly.

Ahem. As I prep for another appetizing lunch of crow, I wonder whether the iPad will be increasingly used for breaking news situations — even though recently here at Cult of Mac we noticed that not many people were using it?

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