If You Combined Every iPad Ever Sold Into One Super-iPad, It'd Be This Big

Today Apple announced that it has sold 225 million iPads. That prompted the folks at Data Genetics to ask the hard (and also sort of stoned-sounding) question: What if all of those iPads were combined into one massive iPad? How big would it be? Then—and this is the best part—they answered it. It turns out that if you combined every iPad in the world into one giant unit, it would cover a good chunk of Manhattan.

"225 Million iPads can be placed flat on the ground and tessellated to make the shape of a giant iPad with 15,000 devices per side,"the Data Genetics post explains. "The size of this assemblage would be a creation 2.85 km wide and 3.60 km tall. (For the Metrically challenged that's approximately 1.8 miles wide and 2.25 miles tall)."

Granted, between the iPad Air and the Mini, there's some variation between sizes; Data Genetics imagined all of the iPads were 240mm x 190mm.

For those who can't make sense of units, but have a vague familiarity with New York City geography, Data Genetics made the amaze-balls map at the top of the post. The Uber-iPad cover spans Manhattan laterally and all of the Upper East and Upper West sides. The button itself looks to be about two blocks long.

Other ways of conceiving of how many iPads have been sold: If iPads were all citizens of an iPad nation-state, iPadistan would  be the fifth-most-populous country in the world, ahead of Brazil, but slightly behind Indonesia, but primed to pass Indonesia soon.

What may be more even more impressive is remembering that the iPad was only announced four years ago, on January 27, 2010. That was 1,739 days ago. That's an average of 129,384 iPads sold every day since then.