It’s no secret.  I’ve been a big fan of Maemo devices (like the Nokia N810 internet tablet) for some time now.  Heck, good odds you’ve had to endure me rambling (seemingly without end) about how great these devices are.

Today I want to take a moment and point you towards two examples of just how awesome some of the software projects on these internet tablets are.

These two examples are not particularly practical at the moment.  But the work behind them is impressive… and, almost more importantly, what they represent… well it’s damned exciting.

First up, I want to talk about liqbase.

The author, Gary Birkett, describes liqbase as “a graphical playground”.  And, well it is.  But the ideas and execution behind what he is doing is absolutely fantastic.  The potential here for how portable devices could work…

You really need a video to do this justice.

Then I highly recommend heading over to his site and looking through some of the info.

Then there’s this rather cool dude who is working to provide KDE 4.2 packages for Maemo powered devices.

KDE 4.x is a very cool project.  Maemo powered devices are very cool.  Put them together… well I don’t know what the result is.  But it seems awesome.

What we have here are two, very different, projects that provide very different user interface possibilities for hand held devices.  And both are pretty exciting and worth while.