How had I missed this one before? A message on SIGIA-L highlighted the Hi-CE Palm Pages, where you can download free educational software for the Palm thanks to a parternship between Hi-CE at the University of Michigan and some tech companies. I'll be grabbing PiCoMap, FreeWrite, and Bubble Blasters (for when I can add my own questions & answers for a rainy day at the doctor's office with the kids).

Slashdot points out two great new gadgets from CeBIT:

• "A company from Israel called VKB has created a vitual keyboard that can be displayed, using a laser, on almost any surface. Connect it to your PDA and use your kitchen table as a keyboard."
• "Olympia has created sound device called Soundbug that uses any hard surface as a speaker. Again, attach this to your PDA and kitchen table and enjoy your mp3's."

I'm really intrigued by the VKB keyboard, although reflecting the image on a car's interior the way they show does cause me some hesitation! I wonder if there is some way to integrate this technology with a PDA and a flat screen monitor in order to create mobile training labs for libraries.