"The pilot project has been so successful that the pen will be extended to more galleries and collection."
About Us
DiscoveryPEN™ is part of a UK based publishing company, Mantra Lingua Ltd, which is the world’s largest publisher of dual language books. It publishes books for the European, North American and Australian markets in English with over 52 languages.DiscoveryPEN™ is a technology where sound is triggered from Paper. This technology has been successfully used in children’s educational resources, labelling for the blind and partially sighted, the birding community and now, in enhancing the experience of visitors to small and medium-sized museums and heritage houses/tours.Mantra Lingua is a publisher with a technological edge. It has a history of managing and operating within partnerships. Examples of partners:
- Lake Ledge Naturalist: Specialist in audio interpretation.
- Publishing: Mantra Lingua, Walker Books, Macmillan Publishing, Barefoot books, Little Tiger Press etc… Making dual language versions of popular picture books, many of which are sound enabled with TalkingPENs.
- Educational: EU project with transnational project team. Developing “thinking resources”
- RNIB: Jointly developed the PENfriend specifically designed for blind and partially sighted
- Imaginox: advised on pedagogy for an on-line film school
- Kadam: a print and on-line magazine on dance where the print magazine is sound enabled.