You know, when I attended a Tandberg event a short while ago, I only imagined its solutions as being very appropriate for business purposes rather than personal ones. I mean, sure, I imagine people engaging in business meetings while being thousands of kilometers (or miles) apart, but it's a bit more difficult to picture such solutions being used for interpersonal communication, as well as helping people with disabilities.

However, it seems that this is exactly the case, as Karen Putz's very moving story proves. Karen runs a blog called DeafMom, and, as you've probably figured out, is hearing impaired. Moreover, she's the mother of three kids, while her husband suffers from the same health problem as she does.

Despite her condition, Karen managed to push through and enjoy quite a fulfilling professional life, one of the tools that helped her a lot being exactly a Tanberg communication system, namely the Z-150 videophone. By using such a solution, coupled with a Zvrs interpreter (Zvrs is, incidentally, the company she's working for), she's been able to enjoy a whole new level of communication with friends and family members, including here other people suffering from various hearing-related problems.

In fact, it's easy to understand why this thing would come in handy. I mean, unlike normal phones, the Tandberg solution actually allows users to see each other while talking. And since visual is the main method of communication for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, the combination of the two makes perfect sense.

In any case, from time to time, it's nice to see just how modern technology is helping people who suffer from certain disabilities that used to impede them from living a normal life, and we can only hope that this will happen more often in the future.