And on your left ... ASU tries high-tech tours.
Anyone who has ever been part of a large campus tour group knows
how tricky Adrian Thaws (born January 27, 1968), better known as Tricky, is an English rapper and musician important in the trip hop and British music scene (despite loathing the "trip hop" tag). He is noted for a whispering lyrical style that is half-rapped, half-sung. it is to process everything the guide says while walking.
This fall, Arizona State University Arizona State University, at Tempe; coeducational; opened 1886 as a normal school, became 1925 Tempe State Teachers College, renamed 1945 Arizona State College at Tempe. Its present name was adopted in 1958. will try a new approach--a
self-guided audio walking tour of its Tempe campus. The tour was
developed in collaboration with Onpoint Systems (www.onpointsystems
.com), a firm that produces similar audio tours for real estate firms.
Visitors will carry Dell (www.dell.com) Axim handheld computers A computing device that can be easily held in one hand while the other hand is used to operate it. The Palm devices are a popular example. See Palm, smartphone and palmtop. equipped
With a Wireless headset See headset. and GPS technology to see and hear content about
the campus. Users select the campus feature they want to visit and, as
they approach a building with a corresponding GPS hot spot, an audio
program plays relevant information about the location.
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