Version 1.3 is coming out soon and it's going to look and work much better than previous versions (You can view a preview of it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-l5MMgQ3XI )

For the TalkingPad community, please email if you'd like a promo code to download it once it comes out (limited number available), email me at:

moc.ysteek|ofni#moc.ysteek|ofni

You guys played a role in getting this out, you deserve a copy of the app!

Leor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-l5MMgQ3XI

Big improvements on previous version, including ability to import through iTunes and load PowerPoint, Keynote, and more.

Enjoy!

Leor

It turns out that the name TalkingPad actually can't be used as an app name. Apps have to avoid using the word "pad" in their title. So, the new name is:

nonlinear

and the new website is…

http://www.keetsy.com/nonlinear

The logo is…

Hope for it to be out very soon! (it's going through the approval process again… tick tock…)

In just a few weeks, the TalkingPad will be ready for download off of the App Store. The programmers are in the final throes of testing and I'm really excited about how it looks!! More features will be added on but you can checkout a few more details here:

TalkingPad Site

Enjoy!

Leor

Here is a sneak peak of the TalkingPad app that I mentioned last week. The app should be available for download in September 2010 - or even sooner. One caveat - this video makes the application look like it's on a Mac II in black in white. The released version will have the look and feel of an iPad app and not a Mac circa 1992 app.

Enjoy!

http://vimeo.com/12907705

In September, a version of the TalkingPad app should be ready for download through the iTunes app store. This earlier version won't yet have all the features of the TalkingPad dream app, but v1.0 will get us 90% there. By Monday, I should have a walk through of this early version.

Exciting times!

Leor

If anyone else here would like to take a run at making an iPhone version of what Seth is talking about please let me know. The iPad SDK has been out for few weeks and it would great to see what people are working on these days.

[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/322349/Fluid_presentatie.mov] "warning this is a 140mb download and a huge video as it was made for dual screen"

Nowadays with the iPad, Multitouch controls are within our reach and I just started re-imagining what would be possible with that. The constraints I put on myself for the first design, where that the app needed to be controlled without mouse or keyboard (big problem devices for a lot presenters) and it needed to be understandable for my 60 year old teacher who was forced to present digitally because his slides where fading rapidly.

I'm interested in sharing my ideas about this concept. So feel free to ask questions and make constructive suggestions. We're thinking about starting this project up again, now most of the problems we ran into are being solved by the iPad and App Store

Greetings,

Bastiaan

I know there's no easy answer, but does anyone have any thoughts on this?

And all AdobeAIR is is a glorified offline flash platform. If you can do it in Flash, you can do it in AIR…and you can do damn near anything in Flash.

I've got a lot on my plate right now, I'm just a blue collar tech guy living in the Real Estate/Finance world, but I'll try to fiddle with this on down the line and see what I can do…I've got a project up next that I've gotta do on AIR anyway so I can do them both at the same time. I'm 99% sure you could do it on AIR though. An actual trained programmer could do in a week what would take me a month, any code-ninjas in here yet? Am I right or wrong on this?

LM

I question the "pad" as a delivery tool.

How do you picture yourself using this?
Are you sitting or standing?

Sitting…hmm probably not, but still, just for the hell of it, sitting…
is it on a flat surface or not… well.. the reflection of the light above your head means that it needs to be inclined, with one hand behind to hold, one hand to operate. Without trying to be comical, if we are sitting, we end up with a laptop with a modification (pie of books ?) to stop the screen from moving.

Standing…
Ok, how long is this presentation ? 30 mins ? It is going to get heavy.
Ok, so you will put it down somewhere when you are not using it. Good plan, but somehow this is going to break the fluidity of the presentation. Anyhow, let's assume you do that and you eliminate the weight aspect or holding a 1.5 lb item between your thumb and fingers, horizontally so it does not slip from your sweaty palm.

How are you going to hold this ? By the top, the bottom? where is your thumb going to be, on the multi touch screen ?

It really does sound as if you need a stand for this device. One that will hold the screen at around 15 degrees off the vertical. A laptop on a stool will do that.

I like the idea though. I also think that Prezi is pretty much there with the software concept.

How would importing content on the iPad work? Suppose I had students making a presentation about something in the news, how would they drag a picture onto a slide and add a bit of text under it?

Could each slide in the 9 slides have a link leading to another slide cluster? Perhaps a special gesture or an embedded hot spot or hyperlink on a piece of text?

Just noodling.

So, we could develop this as a crowdsourcing project, but I think there are other options. For example, what about seeking sponsors for the project? We could crowdsource the funding for a small team that can develop and ship. We could also seek corporate sponsors, if for example, instead of making the app free, there is a charge for it and the proceeds go to a noble cause.

I've uploaded a pencast of what I think Seth is describing. It's a short video of me drawing a sample UI with my smartpen while recording my attempt to describe each element as I go along.

It's at: http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=GK09Tp44XQJS

Make sure to use the rotate tool at the bottom to get it into landscape mode.

— Jossi