Data pad

A Data pad is a piece of technology used by the UNSC. Data pads store information, files, pictures, and sounds. They are also textual documents found at various locations in Halo: Reach.

In the Halo universe
Dr. Catherine Halsey kept a pad of information with her about the Spartan-II candidates as she began to research them. She also appeared to have this technology on her glasses, as she could pull up and read files on them. Similar to modern day devices of the same nature, they can be password protected or in Dr. Halsey's case, sensitive to her retinas only.

The TACPAD appears to be a military application of the Data Pad.

Halo: Reach
In Halo: Reach, a total of 19 data pads can be found at various locations in the campaign. Some campaign levels could have more than one data pad. Each data pad is numbered; letters or words are replaced with numbers in each data pad message representing the number of the data pad.

Data pads numbered 1-9 can be found on any difficulty settings whereas data pads 10-18 can only be found on the Legendary difficulty settings.

Trivia

 * They are extremely similar to the "Padd" that appears commonly in the Star Trek universe, or the datapad from Star Wars. It seems to have stemmed from today's PDAs and handheld phones.

List of appearances

 * Halo: The Fall of Reach
 * Halo: Reach