Hello, just to add to Paul's explanation of Gps receivers I am posting an email on the Loadstone system which I received awhile ago. Paul, I think there might have been a slight typing error in the website address you gave out for Loadstone, you will find the correct address below. Bert. Hello All, Although I have been observing this list for quite a while, it has been quite some time since I have posted! I thought it would be relevant to mention a new GPS navigation tool recently made available to the general public. Loadstone GPS is a free GPS navigation tool primarily (though not exclusively) aimed at blind people on the move all over the world. It installs on a Symbian Series60 mobile phone and is completely accessible with Talks and Mobile Speak. All you need in addition to an accessible mobile phone is a Bluetooth GPS receiver which many of you already have! Loadstone GPS is not trying to compete with the other products well known to this list but rather give people one more option for achieving independent mobility. For more information or to join the Loadstone-GPS mailing list, please visit: http://www.loadstone-gps.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Traynor To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 8:59 AM Subject: [vip_students] Explanation of the GPS and Royal tech devices. Hi Folks, I just wanted to clarify what some of the items in Robbies mail is about. GPS is of course the global positioning system that is used in cars etc. Now it has progressed to being of use to those of us who are blind and need something to determine our location in cities etc. The following item that he goes on to mention "Royal tek GPS like mechanism" is a little device about the size of a match box that you carry around with you in a pocket or somewhere on your person. This is the little device that the satellites use to determine your location. It in turns feeds the positions that the satellites feed it back to another device such as in our case a mobile phone. Loadstone is a piece of free software that you can install in your phone in order for the little matchbox GPS device to communicate with you and inform you of your position on the planet basically. You can read more about loadstone at the site: www.loadstone.com You must use one of the phones that works with the talks speech products. Hope this enlightens some of you. Paul. One of the list members ( Thanks Aidan) enlighten me on the Royal tek GPS like mechanism I'm wondering could some of you who have used this enlighten me some more on what it is, How it works and how well loadstone (which I also don't know a hell of a lot about either) works on it? I recently bought the NokiaE65 which again one of the list members recommended (Thanks Bert) Any info much appreciated robbie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 4252 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now! ******************************************************************** NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you should not use, disclose, distribute or copy any of the content of it or of any attachment; you are requested to notify the sender immediately of your receipt of the email and then to delete it and any attachments from your system. NCBI endeavours to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses or other contaminants. However, it cannot accept any responsibility for any such which are transmitted. We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email and any attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of NCBI ******************************************************************** __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 2802 (20080117) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com