Eurotech Presents New Wearable Interactive Tourist Guide
Amaro (Italy), May 15, 2009 – Eurotech, a leading provider of pervasive computing platforms and devices, announces a new wearable advanced multimedia tourist guide application software developed for the wrist-wearable PC, Zypad.
Thanks to the collaboration between Eurotech and Mobile3D, now tourists can thoroughly enjoy their journeys.
Eurotech's Zypad, weighing only 290 grams and shaped to the contours of the body, can be worn comfortably on the user's wrist, preventing the computer from falling down during usage and being dropped or lost. Its ergonomic design, coupled with its easy interface with touch-screen functions, allow the user to operate hands free.
MobileGuide is a software platform, developed by Mobile3D and organized in two main components: a Content Management System and a specific Client for Zypad. MobileGuide can be contained in a miniSD memory card, which can be inserted into Zypad: with this simple action one can immediately use the multimedia guide and all its features. The functionalities of MobileGuide do not require previous training to the tourist and provide easy to follow navigation instructions by using pictures and arrows.
Thanks to localization technologies built into Zypad (GPS for outdoor locations and active RFID or Zigbee for indoor locations), it is now possible to select points of interest or thematic tours near the user's location. Each created tour is enriched with audio, pictures, videos and 3D reconstruction that allow the tourist to follow the tour without effort. Moreover MobileGuide uses 3D graphics to allow the tourist to open a "temporal window" to see what the place of interest looked like in the past or how it could look in the future, for instance due to planned renovations.
About Eurotech
Eurotech (ETH.MI) is a global leader in the design, development and production of application ready embedded platforms. Eurotech architects systems and devices that combine state-of-the art enabling technologies and offer advanced graphics capabilities, low-power consumption and robust functionality. Eurotech specializes in helping customers connect their applications to the latest available wireless, mobile and pervasive computing technologies. For more information, please visit the Eurotech website at www.eurotech.com.
About Mobile3D
Mobile3D is a spin-off company of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCILab) of the University of Udine, Italy, that implements innovative software tools and provides services that combine the most recent technologies in the areas of mobile devices and interactive 3D Graphics.
For more information, please visit the Mobile3D website at www.mobile3D.it
