At Perkins, high-tech is both future and now

$10m gift to help build new center

Before Ashley Bernard got her new iPod Touch, the Perkins School for the Blind student could not use an MP3 player without help. But thanks in part to school officials, who encouraged Apple Inc. to make an iPod that gives and responds to spoken commands – standard on the latest models – Bernard can listen to her music like any other 16-year-old. [... continued]