Being able to present your Prezi via a tablet opens up a whole new dimension for sharing ideas with your colleagues. Let's say that you have an amazing new business idea that you want to pitch to your boss. If you know that she/he prefers to see a visual presentation but is too busy to sit down in a boardroom and wait while you fire up the projector, then using a tablet is perfect.
Open the Prezi on your tablet and put it into the Show mode, then simply put it in the hands of your boss and let them click through it while you stride along next to them on their way to their next important business lunch. If anything, they'll love the fact you're being innovative with how you present ideas to them. Ensure that you get the tablet back though.
Brainstorming sessions are also a great place for you to use a tablet and run Prezi. You can place it in the center of a desk or allow people to pass it around as they have an open discussion. You may also want to show off (which we totally condone by the way) and connect your tablet to a projector.
If you have an iPad 2 or a new iPad, you can link it to a projector using the Apple VGA adapter cable that can be purchased from any Apple store. You can also do the same with Android tablets. However, there are so many different devices that run the Android platform that we would advise you look into this before setting your heart on one particular product.
Using a tablet and projecting your Prezi can be a great experience for you and your audience, especially if you've designed your Prezi to be completely nonlinear.
First, it will make navigating around your Prezi very easy for you because you're holding it in your hands. If someone in the audience wants to focus in on point C, you can simply touch that part of your Prezi to zoom in. Once done there, you can give the Prezi a shake (a lovely feature) to return to the overview. If you were using a laptop, you'd have to use a mouse and click on the screen. You'd either have to sit down or hunch over the laptop, so this makes for a much more natural experience.
If your room is set up well enough, you might even be able to pass the tablet around to the audience and let individuals zoom in and share their ideas on various points. By doing this, you're turning your audience into presenters and letting them know that their views are important. If you're not sure about how the equipment in your room is set up and whether or not this is possible, it is a good practice to touch base with the IT person or department in charge of the room for advice on getting it connected properly.
This is a really exciting way to present and it definitely makes for a much more interesting session.
Another benefit of using an iPad to present your Prezi is that you remove the need for a mouse to scroll and zoom around. This helps your Prezi look even better and means that your audience won't be distracted by seeing an arrow cursor on the screen.
You may have seen some Prezis on the Explore page of www.prezi.com titled Prezi + iPad =. These were all entries for a competition that Prezi held in 2011. To stand the chance of winning an iPad 2, Prezi users had to create a Prezi explaining the benefits of the Prezi iPad application.
The winning entry can be seen at http://blog.prezi.com/latest/2011/3/1/prezi-ipad-contest-we-have-a-winner.html.
If you want to see a more comical Prezi that was one of the runners up, then go to http://prezi.com/yl9_u5si57pp/prezi-ipad-freedom.
There were hundreds of entries for this competition and they all gave a great explanation of how beneficial the iPad application is. Other awesome entries can be seen at http://blog.prezi.com/latest/2011/2/24/awesome-submissions-from-the-ipad-contest.html.