Ten alternative uses for your Apple iPad

The Apple iPad hits the UK at the end of this month, and there's been few devices more desired. But even after Apple head honcho Steve Jobs launched the iPad with talk of a third type of device somewhere in the tiny niche between your phone and your computer, we're still left scratching our heads and asking: what's it for?

Sure, we know all about the apps, and iWork, and ebook reading, and all that. But it has to be more than just a giant iPhone if it's to win our jaded gadget-love.

Fortunately, the Internet can answer all our questions. Many iPad users have come up with a host of ever-wackier ways of putting the iPad to work -- sometimes with the aid of power tools. We pick ten our of our favourite, taking in cyclists, skaters, DIYers, and all-round nutbars. Click 'Continue' for pictures and videos of the iPad used and abused in ways Steve Jobs never envisaged...