PRESS RELEASE: Torbay Holdings Inc: Launches 'Gesture' Technology in its Nib Click-Less Software for PC and adds a Macintosh Ve

[Murray Charters <mcharters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

PRESS RELEASE: Torbay Holdings Inc: Launches 'Gesture' Technology in its Nib 
Click-Less Software for PC and adds a
Macintosh Version called McNib

February 25, 2004 11:52 AM US Eastern Timezone

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2004--Torbay Holdings Inc (OTC:BB:TRBY.OB) 
announces the launch of "Gesture"
technology in its "click-less" software product now called Nib-Gestures. It 
also announces an entry into the Macintosh
Software market with the launch of McNib-Gestures. Software products will now 
be sold as standalone items to all mouse
users and not only to those who purchase a Quill Mouse, as in the past, so 
creating a separate software revenue stream.




Adding Gesture technology to Nib click-less software, in TRBY's opinion, makes 
it the most advanced "Dwell Time" click
software on the market. Dwell time software clicks mouse buttons for the user 
when they pause over an active part of
the computer screen. Nib software interrogates the graphics environment of the 
computer, recognizing when the cursor is
over an interactive zone. The left button click (Quill Mouse upper button) is 
the default Nib click as left clicks are
probably in excess of 80% of those employed by most mouse users. When clicking 
manually the index finger is likely to
perform in excess of 1,000,000 clicks a year, with Internet users typically 
using many more.

When a right click is required (opens a sub-menu) or a double click (opens a 
file/application) the user selects their
choice from a menu on Nib's toolbar by pausing over the options displayed. The 
cursor is then moved to where the right
or double click is desired.

Nib tracks the number of clicks performed by the user and the software itself. 
To quote from one user in our website
"Hall of Pain" testimony page ().

"I depend on this (Nib Click-less) software to make it through the
day. For example, in the first 45 minutes today, I clicked 19 times
and the nib clicked 534 times. Pro-rate that to a day and you can see
why my hand gave out.

Fred Kurtz
Rexnord Industries
Indianapolis, IN

Additionally Nib features Hyperlink making web surfing entirely click-less, an 
intelligent break timer to remind people
to take aerobic breaks and Nib also has a "disable mouse and keyboard" option 
during the break for those who require
extra "motivation". It also helps meet with an increasing desire and in certain 
geographies, a requirement by employers
that employees take regular breaks and use affirmative methods to ensure that 
they do.

Gesture technology means that it is no longer necessary to move out of the 
working area of the screen to the toolbar to
select an alternative click type. The user can now "Gesture" with the mouse 
cursor to do so, moving to the right and
back to activate a right click, to the left and back for a double click and 
down then back to actuate highlight, drag
or scroll functions.

Gestures Technology adds a further uniqueness to our software products, which 
already are the only ones, to our
knowledge, that provide visual feedback at the cursor so that users know 
exactly what the system is doing without
having to look away from the area of the screen they are working in.

The company believes that Nib and McNib are especially beneficial to the many 
who experience pain as a consequence of
the accumulated effect of gripping mice over long periods. They are also 
perceived as beneficial to the Assistive
Technology market as clicking may not be easy or can cause severe pain in those 
with Arthritis and other degenerative
joint disease.

Another significant application was identified following a request to help a 
Parkinson's disease patient who, due to
finger tremors, could not avoid accidental clicking of conventional mouse 
buttons. The hand positioning in a Quill
Mouse is such that contact with mouse buttons (required to grip ordinary mice) 
is not necessary so patients with any
form of hand tremor can move their cursor and avoid accidental clicking. Nib 
software then allows tremor sufferers to
click by placing the cursor where desired using a Quill Mouse that employs 
their upper arm muscles, which are not
usually subject to tremor.

Tom Large, President & CEO stated. "We have listened, learnt and responded to 
the feedback received from users with
computer related injuries and those with clinically derived impairments. The 
feedback as to Nib software has been
excellent and sales of the Quill and Nib Software, bundled as the Virtually 
Hands Free Mousing System, have seen a
measurable increase this year. The word appears to be getting out, assisted by 
the availability of the Video Professor
sponsored 30-day demo version available from quillmouse.com website. Our 
investment in "Gestures" is hoped to make us
the premier product in this, relatively, unpopulated but potential growth 
sector of the software market."

"The McNib product adds a new dimension in keeping with Macintosh's extremely 
supportive attention to the Assitive Tech
sector and Macintosh users with impairment. It may also increase our product 
presence on the Apple website as the Quill
Mouse is already referenced in two locations. The Macintosh version will also 
be added to our product listing on the US
Governments Section 508 website."

"The decision to sell our software products as standalone items was taken so as 
to make them easily accessible by those
that might gain benefits from their use in the hope that their experience of 
these products may encourage them to
purchase a Quill Mouse as well. The price for both PC and Macintosh standalone 
versions will be $75 with a rebate of
$25 on a Quill Mouse purchased separately. Likewise those who purchase a Quill 
Mouse receive a $25 rebate off a later
purchase of software. This means that whether bought separately or as the VHF 
System bundle the net purchase price will
be $149.95. Consequently this offer should not impact revenues or margins 
negatively and is hoped to stimulate an
aftermarket in our growing user base."

"February 29th is International RSI awareness day and we are on track, so far, 
for making the alterations to our
website so as to make these products available by that day."

Corporate Website 
Product Website 

Section 508 web links: -
Quill Mouse


VHF System


Apple.com Web links: -

Made4Mac

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Mac Disability Link (Scroll down page to Designer Appliances Inc)


Contacts:

Torbay Holdings Inc.
Tom Large, 516-747-5955
tom@xxxxxxxx

SOURCE: Business Wire (press release)


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