Tablets make a great 2nd (or 3rd) screen to supplement your computer workstation. You can keep reference material open on the tablet, which is a good read-only

Tablets make a great 2nd (or 3rd) screen to supplement your computer workstation. You can keep reference material open on the tablet, which is a good read-only device. The one missing link is cut-and-paste from tablet to PC, and there are apps for that. With browser sync, you can look something up on the main screen, then carry the tablet to the lunchroom (or toilet) to read it. Tablets are fantastic for children. If you have kids, you may find that they take to it like a fish to water. You may want to steer them toward educational nature videos and math games, rather than mind-numbing running games like Temple Run, just to justify all that time they could have spent reading a book or playing ball outdoors. Tablets are handy for reading or watching shows in the dark. My wife and I are watching Downton Abbey in bed. It's not ideal--I wish I had a robot arm thingie to hold the tablet rather than having it balanced on my chest, digging a ditch into my skin. But it's good enough; easy to pause and go back to catch what they said (we're not British and the dialects are sometimes tough to follow). Basically, tablets are quite useful, and there's about 100 million users just in the U.S., so they must be doing something right! What's more, I suspect we've only scratched the surface of what these gadgets can do.