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Title: GPS navigation plan to help blind - Geoff Adams-Spink, BBC Post by: Mark David on March 27, 2007, 11:11:14 AM 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.
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