Project Idea Room
Discovery Pen | Get Ideas and Explore Material Options
How will you use the Discovery Pen to tell the story of your site? The Discovery Pen offers a truly flexible budget friendly audio solution. Consider the simplicity of a laminated card and your own recorded voice, create a sound enabled wall poster of a map or submarine, set up a temporary trail with medallions or create an entire exhibit with narration, audio description, bird song and language options. The possibilities are Endless. |
Browse through this selection of Lake Ledge
Audio Description and Audio Interpretation Installations
that use Discovery Pen technology and get your creative ideas flowing
Sitka National Historical Park, Alaska uses sound enabled laminated cards that feature Lake Ledge audio description content for each of the interpretive wayside panels and all of the totem poles along this self guided nature trail. The cards have a hole punched finger guide to provide a tactile cue so users know where to place the Discovery Pen to activate the audio description. They also installed lexan medallions to each exhibit post.
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Craters of the Moon
National Monument uses Discovery Pen sound enabled interior medallions that feature Lake Ledge audio description content for each of interpretive panels and iPad video screens inside the visitor center. |
The Wild Basin
Research Center uses sound enabled 3" medallions to tell the story of the endangered golden cheeked warbler |
Newport State Park uses Discovery Pen sound enabled laminated cards that feature Lake Ledge audio description content for each of the seven interpretive panels along this self guided nature trail. The cards have a hole punched finger guide to provide a tactile cue so users know where to place the Discovery Pen to activate the audio description.
The Sister Bay Historical Society "Corner of the Past" Museum uses a simple and effective sound enabled laminated map of the floor plan of the historical Anderson House Museum. Visitors touch the pen as they enter each room of the house to activate audio interpretation, sound effects and oral histories.
The Besadny Fishery Facility uses a Discovery Pen laminated interactive card to explain the salmon egg collecting process with sound. Visitors activate the card to learn about egg collection, stocking, fish health and what the fisheries biologists are doing as the visitor watches them sort and spawn the fish on the other side of the glass lobby window. Visitors flip the card over to learn more about the natural history of the five species of fish that the facility works with. Audio uses first person narrative from facility staff and narration by Lake Ledge
Zeppy the talking Cockatoo is an icon at the
The Oklahoma City Zoo
With Discovery Pen 3" medallions placed on the Zeppy exhibit visitors can listen to Zeppy meow, cluck, whistle and say hello anytime.
The Oklahoma City Zoo
With Discovery Pen 3" medallions placed on the Zeppy exhibit visitors can listen to Zeppy meow, cluck, whistle and say hello anytime.