[TXnMA]

"I saw the video of the aide picking up something from the podium. "

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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...

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[greeneyes]

Very interesting and very possible.

[WildHighlander57]

Earpiece and neckwire were diversions from the lecture item.

Recall the items being retrieved from the lectern at the end of the Trump vs Illary debate.

[ADemocratNoMore]

>the “iPad prompter” theory...

I don't know if anybody remembers the kerfuffle that occurred after one of the hillary / Trump debates from 2016, but as I recall, it looked like hillary was using some kind of prepared notes. I speculated at the time that she could have been using a mature form of E-ink / e-Paper technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper

https://www.adafruit.com/category/150

While I am just an interested observer of modern technology and certainly not an expert, I can envision situations where an E-Ink layer can be printed over an ordinary paper notepad surface with the associated control electronics incorporated into the backing board of a notepad holder or even the spine of the notepad itself.

The display only uses power when the text has to be updated and the bit-rate necessary to send text messages would be low enough so as to allow them to be sent out as micro-bursts or possibly as steganographically encoded texts disguised as random noise.

Using this method, all one would have to do is us send the right toggle signal to the device to turn off the E-Ink layer and the text would be hidden. At that point all anybody would see upon inspection would be a very normal paper notepad.