Photo: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
I’ve always wondered what those two rectangular items were on either side of the podium during big speeches. It turns out that they are teleprompters for the speaker, as seen in these images of Barack Obama, courtesy of The Big Picture.
Up until now, I thought that those “mirrors” were for photographic lighting purposes, but there was always something odd about where they were placed that made me not believe my own inference 100%.
Anyway, I included a couple of more examples of the teleprompters inside if you care to see.
Photo: AP Photo/Chris Carlson
Photo: REUTERS/Jim Young
wait.. you seriously didn’t know those were teleprompter this whole time? mirrors? hahaha you guys never talked about the teleprompter with your teacher when you were in like elementary school?? man.. you LD.. haha