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“The first thing you see is a periodic table which looks a lot like the front page of periodictable.com or like any of the periodic table posters that I sell, except that it's all turning — all the objects in there are actually rotating.”
On , Theodore Gray, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer at ESSENT GROUP LTD, spoke about user interface during Theo Gray demonstrates his Element iPad ap -- and "debuts" the Japanese version of the Elements song on engineerguy.
In a September 2011 interview, Theodore Gray demonstrated his iPad app for the periodic table, noting that it was available in ten versions covering English, French, German, and Japanese, each with a regular and a demo edition. He explained that the app features rotating object images, a stereo 3D mode, and links to Wolfram Alpha for detailed information and market prices. Gray also debuted a Japanese version of Tom Lehrer's "Elements" song, performed by his cousin Lena Lickstein, and described how the audio was assembled from multiple takes with some audio processing to improve enunciation.