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With ImagiWorks' new
portable computerized science laboratory, your students have an
easy-to-use mobile field tool for collecting and analyzing environmental
data. By connecting an inexpensive PalmPilot handheld computer
to a wide range of sensors and probes, students can measure and
plot everything from water quality to their own heart rate. Want
to turn an ordinary playground swing into a Newtonian physics
experiment? Just attach an accelerometer and start swinging. Back
in the classroom, a quick upload puts the data on a desktop computer
for use in spreadsheets and reports. The $689 General Science
ImagiLab gets you started with a Palm III computer, the ImagiProbe
software and sensor interface, as well as 25 general science activities
and sensors for temperature, light, and voltage.
If only everyone understood sign language, hearing-impaired students
might have an easier time communicating. But until that happens,
Virtual Technologies has
found a way to make hands speak out loud. By sensing the position
and movement of a student's fingers and wrist, the CyberGlove
can capture the hand gestures of American Sign Language finger
spelling. When connected to the GesturePlus recognition computer,
the system can be trained to interpret and convert sign language
to synthesized speech. At nearly 15 grand, the solution isn't
cheap. Then again, communication is a priceless gift.
Question: If you didn't have use of your arms, how would you
control a computer? Answer: You'd use your head. The Tracker 2000
head-pointing solution from Madenta
allows disabled students to use a mouse simply by moving their
heads. The $1,895 camera, perched on top of a computer, tracks
a tiny reflective dot worn on the user's forehead, converting
head movement into cursor movement.
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