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Orangutans at the Miami Zoo are using the iPad:

“We’ll ask them to identify ‘Where’s the coconut?’, and they’ll point it out,” Linda Jacobs, who oversees the Jungle Island program, told Wired. “We want to build from that and give them a choice in what they have for dinner — show them pictures of every vegetable we have available that day, and let them pick, giving them the opportunity to have choices.”

When you’ve built a device that can be used by humans for a nearly unlimited number of tasks, and even primates, you’ve built something incredible.