UbiDuo Story to be on National Foxnews?

Another UbiDuo tv news story by Fox 4 news in Kansas City! According the reporter who did this story says there is a very strong chance that this local Fox 4 news story will get picked up by the National Foxnews station due to its unique success story. This is a story about a deaf entrepreneur, Jason Curry, who owns and runs an extremely successful company called sComm, Inc.

Click on the picture above to access Fox 4 news website to watch the video clip. The transcript of the show is seen below provided by yours truly who did the work while listening to it.


TRANSCRIPT for "Device Gives More Independence To Hard of Hearing" by Mike McConnell:

Voice over: In health news...


Susan Hiland: It's said that necessity is the mother of invention, but for one metro dad and son, it was frustration. Fox medical reporter Maryl Lin McKean shows us how this invention could help people everywhere who are deaf or hard of hearing.



Meryl Lin McKean: Jason Curry carries a briefcase to appointments and family gathering. He was often independent. Appropriate to the device inside is designed to give more independent to himself or others who deaf or hard of hearing.

*typing and communicating on UbiDuo*


Meryl Lin McKean: Jason and I typed to chat in realtime. No need for lipreading. No writing. Or an interpreter. Although one was present just to read to you what Jason typed to me. The device is called "UbiDuo". "Ubi" short for "ubiquitous" - being everywhere.

Voice over by lady with red shirt sitting in chair next to Jason and reads what he wrote for the camera: "My father said, (short laugh), 'I am frustrated.' "

Meryl Lin McKean: One day Jason's Dad, who could hear, had trouble communicating with Jason in a restaurant. He went home and drew a design.

Voice over by lady reading what Jason is typing for the camera: "I jumped up and down screaming at the top of my lungs. And said, 'Dad! That is going to change the world for millions of people who are deaf and hard of hearing!' "


Meryl Lin McKean: 5 years and many test runs later. Jason's company, sComm, has begun selling UbiDuo. The price? $1795.00. The first several hundreds UbiDuo are being shipped out this week. To government agencies, police departments, schools, and businesses, and individuals.

Also hospitals. Lynn Garretson has used UbiDuo to communicate with doctors when her husband and daughter needed care.

*Lynn typing on UbiDuo*

Meryl Lin McKean: Conversations on UbiDuo can be saved, printed and emailed. When I interviewed Jason I focused on the screen with little eye contact with him.

*Meryl Lin McKean typing on UbiDuo*


Meryl Lin McKean: Jason believes that the UbiDuo will become an important link between the hearing and deaf world. Meryl Lin McKean Fox 4 news.

Susan Hiland: The Missouri Department of Economic Development named Jason's company, sComm, the Governor's Technology Company of the Year. For more information go to myfoxkc.com seen on "tv section."



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