The ipaq provides commentary in Gaelic and English

The ipaq will use global satellite positioning (GPS) to track tourists as they walk around Uig beach on Lewis.

It activates an audio commentary and songs when the user steps into so-called "magic circles".

Ipaqs will be available from Gaelic arts agency Proiseact Nan Ealan (PNE) to visitors later this summer.

Six circles will cover a stretch of beach called Traighe Mor and the tales cover history going back to the Iron Age, the 19th century evangelical revival, Uig's strong connections to fighting the Napoleonic Wars and the discovery of the Lewis Chessmen.

The elaborately carved chess pieces were made by 12th century Norsemen and were found on Lewis in 1831.

The Hebridean landscape is not only spectacularly scenic but immensely rich in stories and songs that are rapidly disappearing from local memory Malcolm Maclean

Storyteller Dr Finlay MacLeod provides the narration and the singers include Ishbel MacAskill and Mary Smith.

The stories are going to be available in English and Gaelic, with other language versions planned for the future.

The project was developed with researchers Alison Wood and Brendan Donovan from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab Europe.

The world renowned institute has been behind projects to create technology to learn how babies acquire language and sensors to detect when someone is losing interest in a conversation.