Max Rottersman has a neat little guide on creating your own simple teleprompter. Basically consisting of a laptop screen facing up and an angled CD case, it's a quick fix if you find you've become Anderson Cooper overnight and need to do the news from home. (Although, if this has happened, where to find a prompter may well be the least of your concerns.) He also uses a quick bit of CSS and generates his output in HTML so that he can scroll at will.
Plasti-Prompter v2 [WallStreetFT via MAKEblog]
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