>From: Judy Seiler <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: NEWS RELEASE #2
>Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:18:03 -0800
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>Press Release
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>Technological Breakthrough announced at the 2002 CSUN Conference Pulse Data
>HumanWare releases Global Positioning System (GPS) for the Blind and
>Visually Impaired.
>
>(Concord, CA.) March 14, 2002.   Pulse Data Humanware will announce at CSUN,
>the most prominent adaptive technology conference in the U.S., the release
>of a Global Positioning System (GPS), for people who are blind or cannot
>read print. Priced at $649, the GPS for the BrailleNote or VoiceNote
>personal data assistants helps a blind person to locate their residence or
>other key location, direct a taxi driver on a preferred route, locate bus
>stops or train stations, swap routes with other BrailleNote GPS users and
>hear precise directions to the nearest restaurants out of hundreds of
>thousands of points of interest in the database.
>
>Leading expert on GPS for the blind, Mike May notes that, "I have been
>working on this technology for 7 years as have others around the world but
>solutions have not ended up in the hands of blind people. I am thrilled to
>have teamed up with Pulse Data HumanWare, world leaders in accessible
>personal data assistants, to actually be releasing a truly portable way of
>accessing the copious location information that surrounds me and other blind
>people. This is huge as we have never had access to this information
>before."
>
>The BrailleNote and VoiceNote, which host the GPS application, are
>Windows-based portable devices, using speech and/or Braille to convey the
>information to the blind user. A GPS receiver, the size of a cellular phone,
>plugs into either the BrailleNote or VoiceNote to pick up the satellite
>signals that identify the user's location and the relative position of
>nearby businesses and landmarks.
>
>Pulse Data HumanWare is a member of the Pulse Data International family of
>companies.  Pulse Data International is based in New Zealand and is
>considered as the most technology innovative company providing assistive
>devices for people who are blind or visually impaired.
>
>To learn more, email [log in to unmask] or call Pulse Data HumanWare at
>800-722-3393
>
>Contact: Mike May
>Pulse Data HumanWare
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>www.pulsdata.com
>
>175 Mason Circle
>Concord, CA 94520
>Phone (800) 722-3393
>Fax (925) 681-4630
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