Turning Technologies unveils new product

YOUNGSTOWN — Turning Technologies has introduced a new receiver that allows presenters to use its audience response system without a projector or computer.

ResponseCard AnyWhere is a hand-held receiver with an LCD screen. It is about the size of a deck of playing cards.

Other products in the Youngstown company’s line use a computer or projector to allow a presenter to view polls from students in a classroom or business people in corporate training.

Users of the local company’s TurningPoint product have a response card that allows them to respond to questions or send feedback to a presenter. Results are tabulated quickly for the presenter.

Turning Technologies said it has tested the new receiver at Youngstown State University, Columbiana County Career and Technical Center and West Boulevard Elementary School in Youngstown.

“ResponseCard AnyWhere eliminated a distraction of a projector system,” said Ray Beiersdorfer, a YSU geology professor.

“I was able to check in with the students often and saw a great reaction for the students to give honest answers.”

Turning Technologies is scheduled to move its 130 employees May 1 from the Youngstown Business Incubator to the adjacent Taft Technology Center, which was just built on Federal Plaza West.