TalkingPad Project

Hi everyone,

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

Thanx a lot. Looks awesome! I will get an ipad in September as well. Do ypu know when the pad will be in the Germjan app store?

Hey Andreas,

It will initially be for the iPad. An iPhone version may come out soon after.

Leor

Hallo Leo,

will this be an i-pad app or i-phone app?

Thanx

Andreas

Hello,

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

Hi TalkingPadders,

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

How about you shake to randomize because that just seems natural (though I'm not sure how useful randomizing the order is…); you pinch with all 5 fingers, gathering all the thumbnails together, then they spring back to their original positions. Also, at any moment, you should be able to (perhaps) touch and hold a thumbnail (this sequence is like the iPhone sequence where you move icons around), the thumbs start to jiggle and a popup menu lets you save the config.

So there's original config, random, manual, and saved configs.

-Rob

Woah, hold up there. The context menu is fine for additional functionality, but not fine for core functions. Navigation in a touch interface should, if possible, be by single direct actions like touching, swiping, etc.

I've seen this tried so many times in so many college classrooms. Usually the teacher requires the class to buy some sort of "clicker" device (which costs $15 rather than $500) and the students can then respond to questions etc. Problems become immediately apparent when dealing with the lengthy setup time and getting everyone connected to the system, usually wasting an entire lecture purely on this. Teachers aren't IT admins and consumer devices like the ipad are flashy and fun but why replicate the function of a $15 device when it has already proved to be at most slightly beneficial as a tool. As a computer engineer, I love good technology, but good technology cannot replace good teaching. And a tool like this wouldn't be effective without good teachers using it right as opposed to a classroom plaything which allows the whole class to vote the teacher off the island. (Not to mention the massive cost of forcing whole college campuses to pay an apple tax to participate in a discussion).

Hi everyone,

This is a fantastic concept with lots of potential for helping make meetings/presentations useful. There's a post for this on elance: http://su.pr/2eHa5G .

Anyone interested in bidding on this?

Leor

XMind says they are working on an iPad version. I use xmind all the time on multiple platforms. Love it. Great when someone wants a copy and you can get them started for free. All they need to do is set up an account. If they want the paid premium version it is $40. Great value.

I look forward to the xmind version for iPad. That could be my "killer app" reason for an ipad. So far no killer app reason exists for me.

Dave

I've used XMind for presentations - free download, open source

http://www.xmind.net/

Cross platform - Windows, Mac, Linux and a portable version. Nothing for iPad or Android yet though.

Imagine the teacher being able to ask a question and instantly having their pad light up with green buttons. To ask a class to sketch an idea and post it - only to have a big screen light up with 20 - 30 thumbnails of sketches and the whole class can instantly see the results. Measuring the reaction speed to queries to see who is keeping up and who is falling behind in real time. Imagine the teacher getting 20 red buttons when they turn the class lesson into a boring exercise. The possibilities are endless for modern day teaching.

Allow each meeting participant to input their effective hourly rate. That way, a cost ticker can be incrementing in the corner of each person's display. The unstated question would be: is this meeting really worth its cost?

All this talk of the talking pad and the ultimate presentation system is really cool. I wanted to put my head in the ring with the basic outline of how it could be related to the music and broadcasting sectors.

First the app could create the ultimate broadcasting platform with both audio and visual presentation so that radio and TV merge into one system and all mobile. This could also lend itself to the perfect platform for a band or artist to showcase their talents and present themselves to fans, to promoters, to labels (if they are still in existence by then). Te he point it that the devise becomes any extension of who the artist or band is in terms of creating an experience, at a show every member of the audience could receive the band or artists app and be fully engaged on-going with them.

This would be game changing for bands and artists and enable them to reach their goals and dreams.

here's one on school:
http://voicethread.com/share/705958/

It uses flash, but this looks like what the core ideas is:

http://prezi.com/

While I have not developed any Mac or iPad/iPhone apps before, I'm interested in checking it out. I'm in the process of trying to get the development environment up & running so I can give it a go. I'd be interested in working with anyone else who wants to give this app a go.

Yes, good point about the pptPlex, but it doesn't look like it will run on an iPhone/iPad device. Correct me if I'm wrong bout that btw.

I also don't believe anyone is somehow saying that non-linear or zoom-in/zoom-out presentations are original ideas. It's just a different twist. When I use to work in the multimedia presentation industry, that stuff was very common.

I remember back in the day, my own presentations were non-linear and zoom-in/zoom-out features consisted of me walking over to the audience and handing them an illustration of what I was talking about.

Actually, take a look at this video: http://www.officelabs.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=78 where you can see pptPlex in action on a tablet PC connected to a projector. Isn't this pretty much what Seth has in mind?