encyclopedia titanica

Belfast City Council and Northern Ireland Tourist Board have launched the worlds first interactive multimedia digital tourism trail and appropriately it is based around the citys most famous product euroTitanic The trail is launched at the same time as a new heritage guide focussing on the history of shipbuilding and in particular Harland and Wolff also is published by the CouncilThe euroBelfast Titanic Trail uses the latest GPSbased technology the Node Explorer to take visitors euroback to the future leading them on a tour of the city sites associated with the Titanic story from the grounds of City Hall to Queens Island finishing by presenting them with a vision of how Titanic Quarter will look Using a portable robust media player which is both userfriendly and ultramodern the Node Explorer being used for the first time in Belfast uses a combination of the latest computer technology still images video footage dramatic reconstructions text and audio clips to take users on a fully interactive trip through time telling the story of the mighty Titanic and the people associated with her