Joshua Topolsky from Engadget just came off Jimmy Fallon’s Late Night in which he presented the iPad to viewers all over the U.S. Of course most of us geeks have already seen the iPad in action through previews and reviews but it’s good to see the final product being presented to a more mainstream audience.

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Joshua assures Windows users they can connect the iPad to their PCs through to iTunes. He shows us the amazing iPad Elements app which displays all the chemical elements of the standard table in a visual full-3D view and may be an example of how textbooks at schools and universities might look like in the foreseeable future.

He then talks us through the Marvel Comics application, which we previously showed you. It enables users to read comics by simply sliding through the pages with their fingers, from comic box to box. The quality of the imagery looks very high.

On to games! The air hockey game Touch Hockey and the racing game Asphalt 5 are played and especially the latter (shown in the video above) catched eyes with its control experience. The iPad becomes your steering wheel and you rotate it left and right to steer in the game. The response seemed close to real-time. We couldn’t see the graphics that well but it did look like the iPad was capable of at least some rapid 3D graphics rendering.

We did see some negative aspects; the fingerprints on the screen showed up pretty quickly after Joshua took it out. But we kinda already knew that was going to happen, didn’t we? Overall, it looked like a great presentation of the iPad. The device has the ability to move a product range like tablet computers from geeks to everyday people. Just like the iPhone made smartphones usable to everyday people. That is why these kinds of demonstrations on prime-time television, alongside with standard advertisement, can propel change.