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Unlike guide books, "Artwalks" allows tourists to view the sights without having to raise and lower their heads, Markow said. The cassettes also allow the tourist to advance at his own pace. "You can turn off the tape and stop in the middle if there's something you wnat to investigate," Markow said...
...Roger Tory Peterson's classic Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America, first published in 1934, has topped 3.5 million in sales. Birders account for most of the $14 billion spent annually on the appreciation of wildlife. That includes binoculars, spotting scopes, cameras, records and tapes of bird sounds, computerized software for keeping bird lists, and bird tours that reach any corner of the world, from Siberia and Mongolia (23 days, $3,595 from Wings, Inc.) to Madagascar, Mauritius and Reunion (25 days, $3,775 from Field Guides Inc.). Though some birders regard their hobby...
...general manager of Wrangler jeans, Odear quit to make "one-third the money" running a birding company called Bob-O-Link and its phone service, the North American Rare Bird Alert. For $25 a year, subscribing birders are given a code name and the right to dial into a tape, changed as often as three times a day, listing the whereabouts of all known rarities in North America...
...each model, from the basic 318i ($26,000) to the top of the line M6 ($90,000), is laden with "standard features" that are usually options in Europe or the U.S.: air conditioning, automatic transmission, power windows, sporty hubcaps and, of course, a Sony AM-FM radio complete with tape deck, CD player and four speakers...
...recording system developed by Personics, a Menlo Park, Calif., company, may make both sides happy. The computerized Personics machines, which will be introduced in five California record stores this summer, will enable the consumer to make a customized cassette tape by choosing from an initial inventory of 1,000 songs. After consulting a catalog of available selections, the customer gives the order to a clerk, who transfers the music from a master optical disk to a blank cassette, and may use a computer to print a custom label for the tape. The high-speed equipment can record 40 minutes...