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“I’ve already worked out the methods for gathering the data”

Man you are really ahead of the game. I thought I was just thinking in the Twilight Zone.

I might as well ask you since you seem to know what you are talking about. If someone has a good idea for an iPad app how would you go about it? Would sure like to know where to start for one who doesn’t know anything about app programming.

And thanks all for the nice comments even from Chillers who pretty much shot down my scenario - lol. I know you can’t force the cameraman to focus in, but, even so, I would still shove their comments back in their face. They can’t totally ignore it.

I know you can’t put Nexus on the iPad, but I was thinking just have those issues of the day ready for your iPad revenge on the media. And of course a special ready file of the Hall of Shame of classic demoRat vile vituperations.

You can put anything on the iPad as long as it's been prepped prior to using it on the iPad. The problem with your original idea and the iPad, is that, the iPad doesn't have the capabilities to do the computing necessary to handle the data, and the data would be so huge, that even most desktops and laptops would be overwhelmed. What you had in mind would require a mainframe or a massively parallel computer to handle, with storage into the exabytes range. Remember that, the data would have to encompass many years, and many sources, and many people, and thousands of subjects, and hundreds of categories (not exactly the same as subjects/topics), and many geographical locations, and many authors, and many different publishers, and even many types of publishers (not the same as publishers). The database would require something that could handle huge SQL files, and that could arrange those files into many different access criteria and/or methods. No tablet, and no PC can handle that type of processing, and only a computer or series of computers that are in the same category of computing as a search engine, would be able to handle that kind of system.

But, having said that, the tablets and any other type of computing device, could serve as the presentation means.

I might as well ask you since you seem to know what you are talking about. If someone has a good idea for an iPad app how would you go about it? Would sure like to know where to start for one who doesn’t know anything about app programming.

When it comes to an iPad app, or creating one of your own for your idea, you'd need to know something about programming for the device and its OS, namely, iOS, and there are actually some tutorials about how to go about it, so, doing a look-up in Google for a phrase such as "creating an iPad app", would get you started, but, I warn you, if you're not familiar at all with programming and web pages and the some of the other skills, it's going to take you a while before you can actually create that first app.

Also, you don't want to limit yourself to an iPad app, and you should concentrate on building your application in some form that can be used anywhere, and that would be with HTML5 and a scripting language (a scripting language is not as powerful as a full-blown programming language, but, it's more than adequate for most web pages and web programming. For your original idea, it would be very helpful and advisable to know SQL for handling of the data.

That guy "chillers" is partly right about the interviewing and camera crew, but, your idea could be one that could eventually become accepted for rebuttals and background information. If the idea is used in several places, it could easily become accepted practice. After all, a similar tactic is already in use, where people come in to an interview with charts and newspaper/magazine articles, ready to quote from that information. So, why not a computing device, which could easily contain millions of times more information and organized in a format which could easily be recalled by the user?