PDAでプレゼン

たかがプレゼンするためにPCをもちあるくのが嫌だ。
という訳でPDAでプレゼンする方法が欲しい。
一声２万円かあ。
ほんとにこれ、うまくいくのかなあ。
とりあえずI-Oのは、とっくに生産終了している模様。
ぐっすん。

Using A PDA To Deliver A PowerPoint Presentation

Margi Systems creates the Presenter-to-Go (US$199) series of cabling devices that connect your Palm or a PocketPC based PDA to a projector. Margi's product includes a complete line for both the Palm and the PocketPC - these usually attach to PDAs using the CompactFlash, SD Card or Memory Stick slots on the PDA themselves. The other end of Margi's cabling devices feature a VGA out port that plug straight into a projector. Margi's offerings include an IR remote that controls the presentation along with a PowerPoint compatible software that needs to be installed on both your Windows based system and the PDA. Margi also includes a Margi printer-driver that converts output from any Windows application to a Margi compatible file - much like the Adobe PDF printer driver.

Colorgraphic with its Voyager VGA CF card (US$175) based cabling device is another major player in the market. Unlike Margi, the Voyager offering works only with CompactFlash cards on your PDA - so if your PDA lacks a Compact Flash card slot, you won't be able to use this product. On the other hand, Voyager's product allows you to connect your PDA to a computer monitor and television as well apart from a projector. Voyager includes the ClearVue Suite from Westtek, a bundle of PDA applications that can show unaltered files from PowerPoint, Word and Excel.

I-O Data creates CFXGA that is a CompactFlash type display-out interface card (US$175) - this is again bundled with Westtek's ClearVue Suite and can interface to projectors, televisions and monitors. Beyond the Palm and PocketPC platforms, I-O Data's offering is unique in that it supports Sharp's Linux based Zaurus PDAs as well.