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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT style="COLOR: #000000"
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all</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT style="size: 4">Hoping you are all
enjoying your summer days.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT style="size: 4">I got this from a
valuable list serve the idevices list and thought it so worthy of sharing
with
all of you.</FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="face:
calibri"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The Soundscape eclipse app for IOS devices is now
available in the app store.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="face:
calibri"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="face:
calibri"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">events in real time with their sighted
peers.</FONT></FONT></P>
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style="face: calibri"></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="face:
calibri"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The app is a joint effort between The Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), NASA’s Heliophysics Education Consortium
(HEC),
the National Center</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="face:
calibri"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">for Accessible Media (NCAM), and the National Park
Service (NPS). Features include an interactive “Rumble map”; audio
descriptions
of key features of</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="face:
calibri"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">the</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="face:
calibri"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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.</FONT></FONT></P>
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style="face: calibri"></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="face:
calibri"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="face:
calibri"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">series</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="face:
calibri"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="face:
calibri"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">designed to make the user’s mobile device shake, or
rumble, in response to the changes.</FONT></FONT></P>
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style="face: calibri"></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="face:
calibri"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="face:
calibri"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">rural locations so that users can experience how
eclipses change the behavior of different species, including humans. During
the
next five years, the</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="face:
calibri"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">app</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="face:
calibri"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">will expand to include other eclipses and
astronomical
objects of interest giving people who are blind and visually impaired – and
everyone else – a new</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="face:
calibri"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">way to engage with the universe around
them.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="face:
calibri"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Get the app here...</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT style="face:
calibri"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE:
11pt">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eclipse-soundscapes/id1262152991?mt=8</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY:
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style='face: "Arial' black?><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Gateway For the
Blind
LLC.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">Keep Smiling,<BR>Janie
Degenshein<BR>Happiness isn't having what you want, but wanting what you
already
have!<BR>Facilitator of ECHO (Eyes Closed Hearts Open)<BR>state affiliate
board
member<BR>President of the senior division of the National Federation of the
Blind of New Jersey<BR>President of the Technology division of the National
federation of the Blind of New Jersey<BR>NFBNJ Newsline
co-ordinator<BR>jdegen16@comcast.net<BR></DIV></DIV>
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