Listen Here lets tourists eavesdrop on the city

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Tourists want to experience the "sights and sounds" of everywhere they travel, but usually viewing the sights is much easier than hearing the sounds. It's one thing to look at the Statue of Liberty; it's quite another to be able to listen to the sounds around it. The UK designer behind the Listen Here concept would like to redress the balance by giving tourists a chance to hear audio from all over a town without having to actually go to each place. With microphones at different locations transmitting data to a central map, tourists would be able to simply point at a different and hear live ambient sound from all around a city. .. Continue Reading Listen Here lets tourists eavesdrop on the city

Section: Good Thinking

Tags: Maps, Microphone, Tourism

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