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Article: Botanics waves audio tour 'wand'
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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EDINBURGH'S Royal Botanic Garden is to become the first attraction
in the UK to use state-of-the-art audio tours.
Visitors to the revamped Palm House will be able to choose to hear
information on thousands of plants by using the new Audiopass
"wands".
As well as the facts, visitors will be treated to sound effects
from many of the plants' home regions, to help them imagine they are
in the wild.
The device works like a remote control. Visitors point it at the
plant and it will skip to the right piece of information, after
reading a tiny sensor placed at each exhibit.
Hummingbirds, elephants and buzzing insects are among the sounds
being used to create as vivid a tour as possible.
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