The only audio tour I've used recently (1996) was at Stonehenge.  It's a
digital affair, looking like a telephone handset.  It has (three?) levels of
information for each of a dozen or so locations around the site, reachable
by punching numbers on the handset.  I was quite impressed.  You walked to a
particular spot and punched in the appropriate number.  Since it wasn't
earphones, it was easy to talk to members of your party, before or after the
spiel (or even during, with a pause function) before heading to the next
location.

It was quite a surreal scene, all those people surrounding this wonderful
megalithic construction, every one of them with a "cell phone" to his/her
ear!

just my 2 cents,
Robin


Robin K Panza                         [log in to unmask]
Collection Manager, Section of Birds          ph:  412-622-3255
Carnegie Museum of Natural History       fax: 412-622-8837
4400 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh  PA  15213-4008  USA

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