Thank you so much for sharing this with us.

You made my day.

Arigato gozaimasu
 -Ismael

I love the minimalistic design approach you are taking for the device. It made me think of the post below from Presentation Zen. It inspired me in many an occasion.

Simplicity
A key tenet of the Zen aesthetic is kanso, or simplicity. In the kanso concept, beauty, grace, and visual elegance are achieved by elimination and omission. Says artist, designer and architect, Dr. Koichi Kawana, “Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.” When you examine your visuals, then, can you say that you are getting the maximum impact with a minimum of graphic elements, for example? When you take a look at Jobs’ slides and Gates’ slides, how do they compare for kanso?

“Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.”
—Dr. Koichi Kawana

Naturalness
The aesthetic concept of naturalness, or shizen, “prohibits the use of elaborate designs and over refinement” according to Kawana. Restraint, then, is a beautiful thing. Talented jazz musicians, for example, know never to overplay, but instead to be forever mindful of the other musicians and find their own space within the music, and within the moment they are sharing. Graphic designers show restraint by including only what is necessary to communicate the particular message for the particular audience. Restraint is hard. Complication and elaboration are easy… and are common. The suggestive mode of expression is a key Zen aesthetic. Dr. Kawana, commenting on the design of traditional Japanese gardens says:

“The designer must adhere to the concept of miegakure since Japanese believe that in expressing the whole the interest of the viewer is lost.”
— Dr. Koichi Kawana

In the world of PowerPoint presentations, then, you do not always need to visually spell everything out. You do not need to (nor can you) pound every detail into the head of each member of your audience either visually or verbally. Instead, the combination of your words, along with the visual images you project, should motivate the viewer and arouse his imagination helping him to empathize with your idea and visualize your idea far beyond what is visible in the ephemeral PowerPoint slide before him. The Zen aesthetic values include (but are not limited to):

Simplicity
Subtlety
Elegance
Suggestive rather than the descriptive or obvious
Naturalness (i.e., nothing artificial or forced)
Empty space (or negative space)
Stillness
Tranquility
Eliminating the non-essential

-Ryan