BBC NEWS | Technology | GPS navigation plan to help blind

This is a very exciting use of technology, and opens up all sorts of interesting opportunities. I shall be tracking the developments closely!

BBC NEWS | Technology | GPS navigation plan to help blind: "GPS navigation plan to help blind
By Geoff Adams-Spink
Age & disability correspondent, BBC News website

Photo of a mobile phone and GPS receiver
Easy Walk is available on Symbian mobile phones
An Italian technology company is pioneering a GPS satellite system that will give blind people greater independence and mobility.

The Easy Walk service has been developed by Il Village, a firm in Turin in northern Italy.

It is currently being tested by a group of 30 people from the Italian Blind Union who are providing feedback. The plan is for Easy Walk to be launched to blind and partially sighted people in Piedmont in the autumn."