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I may have been the originator of the "iPad prompter" theory -- but I based it on visual evidence:
I did a frame-by-frame analysis of that video clip -- and even created a little freeze-frame sequence of it -- as an analysis aid...
Observations:
- As the woman approached the podium, she had a ?phone? and a dark (cover?) object in her left hand.
- As soon as her right hand closed on the top of the tablet/folder on the podium, her attention turned to whatever was in her left hand.
- As she lifted the tablet/folder, she always kept the under-side of it turned toward the camera.
- As she pivoted to leave, she tucked the tablet/folder underneath whatever she had in her left hand.
- The clearer views of the underside of the object indicated that it appeared to be a plain, cardboard-backed paper tablet -- with green? binding tape across its top edge.
- The "tablet" appeared to be more rigid than an ordinary lined paper tablet.
- Once she had it covered, she kept her left hand over it -- holding the dark (cover) object down -- with her right hand supporting the tablet from beneath (..."sandwiched" between her two hands...) -- as she 'booted' for the exit.
- Those are awfully strange moves just to collect a simple paper tablet or folder.
- By the way she grabbed and carried the tablet, it was obviously crosswise (in "landscape" position) when on the podium. (That's unusual use of a normal, lined tablet.)
It would be a trivial exercise to glue the pages of an ordinary (11" X 8.5") lined paper tablet together, cut a rectangular section out of the center, and mount a thin e-tablet (like an iPad Air -- 9.45 x 6.67 x 0.30 in) in the recess.
Retrieving it would simply involve keeping the cardboard tablet back toward observers -- and covering the iPad from prying eyes as you made your escape...
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CAVEAT: I have zero evidence that an iPad actually was serving as a prompter on Biden's podium.
But the circumstances do not preclude the possibility. And using encrypted Bluetooth or WiFi to communicate text to it would certainly be more robust and secure than feeding audio to an earpiece or audio implant...
YMMV...
TXnMA
