Xybernaut and Horace Hopper's Musical Adventures Sign Teaming Agreement; Acceleration and Organization of Learning in the Very Young Targeted.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 29, 2003

Xybernaut(R) Corporation (NASDAQ:XYBR) and Horace Hopper's Musical Adventures today announced they will collaborate to develop applications in early learning that utilize advanced computer based programs which are effective in both normal and special needs child populations.

Under terms of the agreement Xybernaut and Horace Hopper will combine the mobile/wearable technologies of Xybernaut with the research driven educational software developed by Horace Hopper's Musical Adventures.

Xybernaut has been involved with early education, especially with the special needs children, through their XyberKids(TM) assistive technology system. For the past year, Xybernaut and Horace Hopper have discussed ways to collaborate in developing new products in this area.

Horace Hopper uses music to increase language and other cognitive skills for children from ages 2-10. The company has won five national awards and their products are used in hundreds of schools across the United States. In a study published last year by Dr. Christee Jenlink, Chair of the department of Educational Foundations and Leadership at Northeastern University in Oklahoma, there was a 48% increase in math development among four-year-old children and a 23.5% increase in verbal skills in three-year-old children when using the Horace Hopper program.

A new Horace Hopper CD-ROM program using 500 MB of audio samples and graphics designed to define and strengthen the link between critical listening and verbal responsiveness is now at the end of an eight-month evaluation study in the Oklahoma City school system. It was tested among students diagnosed with autism and Aspergers disorder in one school and those with profound developmental delay caused by cerebral palsy, mental retardation, Downs Syndrome, fetal alcohol syndrome and environmental deprivation in the second school. Early results show increases in verbal skills and in the ability of some children to appropriately respond to their environment.

The heart of the new CD-ROM program, according to Dr. Max Fomitchev, a specialist in computer engineering and consultant to Horace Hopper Inc., is an interactive library of 430 essential words (audio samples) that are sung in the program by the computer and 860 graphic displays of the words. Children learn to sing pitches in four languages to develop critical listening. Painting with music, spelling with notes, learning rhythmic patterns are all designed to stimulate the area of the brain that performs much of the cognitive functions in language and math.

Tash Manufacturing in Canada has provided a USB click switch, the "Hopper Bopper," that has been incorporated into the interactive design. This 5-inch diameter button is used to trigger responses in pitch recognition, tonal memory, melodic timing, spelling with musical notes, painting with music, drum sounds, and the interactive library.

Lonnie Liggitt, president of Horace Hopper, states; "With the Xybernaut team we believe we can accelerate and organize the learning patterns of the very young. We believe we can reach the hundreds of thousands of children in our schools and homes who have difficulty learning because of disease, genetic eccentricity, or physical trauma and live lives of isolation and deprivation. We use music as a delivery system because it works. It breaks through the learning filters found in these young children. One child in ten thousand has perfect pitch--one in twenty autistic children have it. We start from there. With advanced voice recognition and the right programming, we hope to build computers that will be capable of nurturing a transference relationship with the child and use music and other tools to build paths to the outside world."

About Xybernaut

Xybernaut Corporation is the leading provider of wearable/mobile computing hardware, software and services, bringing communications and full-function computing power in a hands-free design to people when and where they need it. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, Xybernaut has offices and subsidiaries in Europe (Germany) and Asia (Japan). Visit Xybernaut on the Web at www.xybernaut.com.

More information about Horace Hopper's Musical Adventures can be found on the Internet at www.preschoolmusic.com.

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