In my research group at Carnegie Mellon University, we have developed a number of applications. One in particular seems like it would make a fine commercial product. Slide Show Commander allows you to use your Palm (we also support Windows CE devices as well) to control a PowerPoint presentation. On the Palm, you can move forward and backwards by slides, see a thumbnail image of the current slide on which you can scribble, see the notes of the current slide, see the list of titles, and there is also a nice timer. It communicates to the PC running Power Point using a serial cable, IR, Symbols Spectrum 24 network, and eventually through BlueTooth and Lucent Wavelan. We feel that the usefulness of this program will really take off when radio wireless communication becomes more widely available this year. More details and a download of an older version are available at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pebbles/slideshow. A paper describing the new version (along with our other new work) is on: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pebbles/papers/pebblesone.pdf. We are looking for an established company to market this application. NOTE: we are NOT looking for a shareware distributor, because we cannot support it. Rather, we are hoping for a company who will license the product, handle all support, marketing, etc., and will give us a percentage of the sales. This program seems to be very popular, and older versions were downloaded thousands of times. Many man-years of effort have gone into our research project, and we feel that the Slide Show Commander program is pretty much ready for commercial use now. The development of this product is supported by grants from Palm, Symbol, IBM, Microsoft, DARPA and others, and people from Palm have used this product in demonstrations. I would be happy to discuss terms and our short-term and long-term goals with anyone interested. Sincerely, Brad A. Myers Human Computer Interaction Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 (412) 268-5150 FAX: (412) 268-1266 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palm.com/devzone/mailinglists.html
