[Njtechdiv] new app for understanding the eclipse details inside

[Janie Degenshein]

Hello all
Hoping you are all enjoying your summer days.
I got this from a valuable list serve the idevices list and thought it so 
worthy of sharing with all of you.
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The Soundscape eclipse app for IOS devices is now available in the app 
store.

The Eclipse Soundscapes Project app is specially designed so that people who 
are blind and visually impaired can share in the awe and wonder of 
astronomical

events in real time with their sighted peers.



The app is a joint effort between The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 
(SAO), NASA’s Heliophysics Education Consortium (HEC), the National Center

for Accessible Media (NCAM), and the National Park Service (NPS). Features 
include an interactive “Rumble map”; audio descriptions of key features of

the

eclipse; a play-by-play description of the total solar eclipse as it is 
happening in the user’s area; and a countdown clock to the next upcoming 
eclipse.



The “Rumble Map” gives the user the sensation of “feeling” the Sun during an 
eclipse. Our technology translates images of key eclipse features into a

series

of unique frequency modulated tones that map out variations in light and 
dark as the user explores the image with their fingertips.  These tones are 
specially

designed to make the user’s mobile device shake, or rumble, in response to 
the changes.



After the eclipse, the Eclipse Soundscapes app will provide access to a 
database of soundscape recordings from U.S. National Parks and other urban 
and

rural locations so that users can experience how eclipses change the 
behavior of different species, including humans. During the next five years, 
the

app

will expand to include other eclipses and astronomical objects of interest 
giving people who are blind and visually impaired – and everyone else – a 
new

way to engage with the universe around them.

Get the app here...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eclipse-soundscapes/id1262152991?mt=8









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Gateway For the Blind LLC.

Keep Smiling,
Janie Degenshein
Happiness isn't having what you want, but wanting what you already have!
Facilitator of ECHO (Eyes Closed Hearts Open)
state affiliate board member
President of the senior division of the National Federation of the Blind of 
New Jersey
President of the Technology division of the National federation of the Blind 
of New Jersey
NFBNJ Newsline co-ordinator
jdegen16 at comcast.net

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