Would You Buy A Synthetic iPad I was bouncing around the Internet like I do every day and ran across a question that I had seen before: Would you buy a synthetic diamond for a loved one? I figured I would turn that around and talk about synthetic iPads and other things as well. We have been able to make synthetic diamonds for decades and most of the industrial diamonds are man made synthetics for good reason. In general, they are as good or better than diamonds that are mined. A diamond is a pure carbon crystal and that is what is actually easier to make. Diamonds in the wild tend to have inclusions and extra stuff that do neat things like add color. A crystal clear diamond is pure carbon. A blue or yellow diamond has impurities. Of course, having just the right amount of the right kind of impurities allows this to happen. It is interesting to read comments and watch the big diamond companies like De Beers hype ¡°natural¡± diamonds. Of course, they want you to pay big bucks for ¡°natural¡± diamonds. They are some how ¡°better¡±. Unfortunately issues like ¡°blood diamonds¡± that are mined and then used to finance conflicts around the world are a rather good argument for switching to synthetics. Many of the arguments tend to emotional and that brings me to the iPad (Fig. 1). There will not be a synthetic iPad. That would essentially be an iPad clone and Apple would step on that so fast it would make your head spin. Of course, we have a virtual hoard of iPad alternatives.For more information, please visit ipad clone happyed01466