Caps with radio tuners to keep Olympic audience informed in Beijing

The audience at the 2008 Beijing Olympics would be able to get information about the Games anytime and anywhere through a radio tuner to be fitted on their caps.

New Delhi, Sept 8 : The audience at the 2008 Beijing Olympics would be able to get information about the Games anytime and anywhere through a radio tuner to be fitted on their caps.

The idea for 'radio caps' came from radio workers, who incorporate mini radios and stereo earphones into their caps, allowing the wearers to listen to real-time information of events, weather forecasts and services without the barrier of time and place.

"People attending the Olympic Games would wear a cap to take shelter from summer sunlight anyway, if the cap happens to be a radio for the Olympic events, how can they refuse?" Xinhua quoted Xu Jun, director of the Olympic Radio of the China Radio International (CRI), as saying. he round-the-clock radio programs will be transmitted in nine languages, including Chinese, English, Russian, French, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Korean and German, and will be largely from the CRI's Olympic Radio which was launched a year ago to broadcast about the Games till August next year.

These special caps will be distributed free of charge at game venues and hotels to tourists and game audience, according to Xu.

ANI