[gps-talkusers] Re: a road trip

Hi there Angie,
I have recently gone to my first workshop to see how the GPS systems work 
for the blind. I had been waiting for about a year for the system to finally 
becomee available. The system I saw is put together by the company Freedom 
Scientific who produce the speech system "JAWS"-which I use on my desk and 
lap tops. The system I saw uses the freedom scientific's "Packmate" for the 
user to enter destination etc. Apparently, the actual GPS system is an off 
the shelf staand alone system. The Packmate itself to buy is about $2,000 
U.S The GPS system is about $400. I do not need the Laptop features of the 
Packmate i.e email, wordd processor etc as I have a laptop. I mainly would 
just like a small, light and cheep system which has speech. I obviously need 
to be able to enter my destination etc. I have only seen the one system. 
However, I have come across a number of others on the net. Which one are 
using? Can you suggest a more affortable system.
I look forward to hearing from you
JasonttI
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angie Hiser" <angiehgp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 10:18 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] a road trip


> Good Morning all,
> Woo Hoo,
> I went on a little road trip over the week-end. I had such a great time
> with my gps!
> I can remember before I had my gps, I hated even short trips! But now I
> wish I could go on a longer one. I knew right where we were ,  how much
> longer it was going to be ,  what was around us ,  and how much longer we
> had to go. It was a great time for me to sit and mess around with it until
> I got it right!
> I have to tell you, I have  6 and 7 year old daughters. They were in the
> back seat, first they were a little upset because I had my headphones on 
> so
> they could not hear the system. But I did not want to bug my mom who was
> driving.  The whole way there they were so full of questions. How much
> longer mom, how long have we been driving. I was able to tell them how far
> we had already went and how much farther we had to go. It was real cute!
> They really like mom's new gps! And mom loves to be able to   tell them
> these things!
> Thank you so much for all those of you that worked  endlessly on this !
> What a wonderful thing you have all done!
>
> Sincerely, a very happy person,
> Angie
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