Innovative walking-stick with MP3 player and SIM card (video)
IT walking-stick is a unique opportunity for the elderly and people with movement problems. “It has radio and MP3 player, memory card and SIM card. In case of relevant settings it is able to keep 5 phone numbers. Usually those are the numbers of relatives and by pressing SOS button it is possible to phone all those 5 relatives. It makes sound, attracting attention that the person has health problems or needs help. Or, for example, for dark hours, there is a light on the walking-stick,” Aleksey Sandikov, Deputy Director of TSD, told “A1+”. Still there are few examples of this walking-stick produced by TSD company, which manufactures Armenian phones and tabs- ArmPhone and ArmTab. The negotiations for the mass sale of the walkig-stick are underway between the company and ministries and entities. The walking-stick has aroused interest also abroad. According to the opinion of the PR specialists of the sector, Armenian IT production is more in demand abroad than in the inner market. “Much depends on the intellectual level of our large businesses, as they are the potential consumers of that IT production. There are quite good solutions in our local market, but many leading spheres in our country, which form the budget, haven’t reached the consciousness that it is possible to earn more money with the use of IT,” says Vigen Hakobyan, specialist in PR technologies. TSD company, which operates in Mergelyan Institute, in economically free zone, doesn’t complain of exportation; though it is hard to compete with China, especially the exportation of software solutions has great success. It is exported both to the EU and the EEU countries. “It was very surprising for them that Armenians manufacture mobile phones, and the media outlets of Russia and other partner countries half jokingly commented on our production, as there is a stereotype that Armenia is a country of cognac and apricot,” adds Aleksey Sandikov smilingly. In the inner market the state should be the main client of the development of the IT sector. Vigen Hakobyan, specialist in PR technologies, considers involvement in the military industry sector after April War to be such a precedent, “Those ties are getting more and more active and as I know positive results have already been registered. Besides, if the military industry system becomes the main client of the IT sector, other sectors follow it.” Highly skilled professionals are involved in the RA IT sector and their demand is increasing in the whole world. As a result, suggestions from abroad with high salaries become attractive, and keeping them in Armenia becomes more and more difficult.
