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Tuesday, 01 March 2005 |
Botanics waves audio tour 'wand'
Scotsman, UK
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.
Featuring more than 11 hours of commentary from 42 different members of staff at
the Botanics, the tour will cover every aspect of the plants in the glasshouses,
which have been shut for almost a year for renovation to be carried out.
Speakers include Regius keeper Professor Stephen Blackmore plus all the garden’s
directors and staff from the various divisions, many of whom braved inhospitable
terrain across the world to bring back specimens.
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