Smart Cover on iPad 1 -- It's all done with magnets. And Glue
One of the coolest features of the iPad 2 is Apple's Smart Cover, that giant fridge-magnet which snaps instantly into place on the front of the iPad and works as both screen protector and stand. Sadly the symbiotic nature of the iPad 2 and the Smart Cover means that it won't work on the original iPad. Or will it?
The solution is to add your own magnets to that ugly old iPad you can barely stand to look at any more. Over at the The Russians Used a Pencil blog, Dan Provost did just that, and even shot a video of the results.
To line everything up properly, our intrepid hacker took four rare-earth magnets and almost tossed them at the cover's hinge. There they stuck, twisting themselves until they sat in place. Next, Dan used masking tape to measure where they should sit on the iPad's left edge, and then stuck them to the flat surface with superglue.
Thus equipped, the Smart Cover can hide the shame that is your big, old, slow first-gen iPad. You can use it as a cover, and as a stand. The one thing is won't do is to lock and unlock the screen, because the iPad 1 lacks the internal magnet that is needed to detect the cover.
If you're going to actually glue something to your iPad, I guess you could skip the magnets altogether and just stick the Smart Cover itself straight to the side. On the other hand, this hack means you won't actually have to buy the new iPad just to get the clever cover, which means you just saved at least $500, just by reading this post. You're welcome.
Smart Cover for iPad 1 [The Russians Used a Pencil]
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