[gps-talkusers] Re: WayFun 2005, Maine

  • From: Paul Bolduc <pcbolduc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:26:18 -0400

Good morning Mike,

I don't know what calendar you use in your part of the world, but here in New 
England the Friday you speak of is September 16, 2005 the 14th of September is 
on Wednesday.  

I will speak to my wife and hopefully we'll be able to go up Portland, ME the 
morning of Friday, September 16.  

Paul Bolduc
A potential user of the system. 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael May 
  To: GPS-talkusers-freelists.org 
  Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 11:34
  Subject: [gps-talkusers] WayFun 2005, Maine


  Seeing with GPS

  DAVIS, CA, (September 1, 2005)

  On Friday, September 14, 30 blind people from the U.S. and one from 
  the Netherlands land in Maine to begin 5 days of independent 
  exploration of Portland and Bar Harbor, Maine. These intrepid 
  travelers are using accessible GPS technology developed by Sendero 
  Group running on a BrailleNote personal data assistant to find their 
  way to museums, lobster hatcheries, and breweries. Picture 30 blind 
  people, white canes and dogs, striding through city streets with 
  Braille and voice synthesizers announcing the information sighted 
  people take for granted on print signs.

  Sendero Group's Way Fun trips can be described as a GPS Adventure, 
  Treasure Hunt, or GeoCaching. The goal of Way Fun is for blind people 
  to stretch their travel limits by exploring interesting environments 
  using all his or her orientation and mobility techniques including 
  BrailleNote GPS and to have fun in the process.

  One of the inventors, himself totally blind from age 3 to 46, Mike 
  May says, "When you can get around independently, the number one 
  limiting aspect of blindness is minimized. That is why some blind 
  colleagues and I developed this technology and enjoy sharing it with 
  others. I regained low vision a few years ago after stem cell and 
  cornea transplants. Now I can see that the signs are there but I 
  still can't read them. This accessible GPS technology is every bit as 
  important with low vision as it was with no vision."

  Sendero Group is an adaptive technology company based in Northern 
  California. Mike May and the BrailleNote GPS have been the subject of 
  everything from NBC Dateline to Australia's Beyond Tomorrow. See this 
  wayfinding technology for yourself at the IRIS Center in Portland, 
  ME, September 16 (207-774-6273) or call Sendero Group for an 
  appointment during another time in the trip.

  Sendero Group LLC
  1118 Maple Lane
  Davis, CA 95616
  (888) 757-6810
  GPS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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