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Nursery photo kiosks give a special delivery

March 26, 2002

MARKHAM, Ontario - Not long after the umbilical cord is cut and the baby cleaned up, parents can hold digital proof of the stork's delivery in their hands.

Photo kiosk maker Power Interactive Media Inc. (OTCBB:PIAM) will demonstrate its new Baby Photo Kiosk to the health care industry at the 2001 Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) convention June 10 in Charlotte, N.C.

Power Interactive is taking the next step following its January 2001 announcement of its plans to market Baby Photo Kiosks to hospital nurseries. The kiosks let parents have high quality digital photographs of their babies hours after birth. Other photo systems may make parents wait days to view photos.

The Canadian firm tested a Baby Photo Kiosk at Clark Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville, Ind. Its new Infant Photographic Division is refining the product. In the next year the company plans install more than 150 boxes and projects making nearly $7.2 million per year from the machines.

AWHONN represents more than 22,000 women's health, obstetric and neonatal nurses in the U.S., Canada and abroad.

This May, Power Interactive announced plans to build a $7.5 million manufacturing facility in Bibb County, Ga. During May the company also set up photo kiosks in Pittsburgh's Mellon Arena, home of the Pittsburgh Penguins, so that fans attending the Stanley Cup quarterfinals could have their pictures taken with hockey great Mario Lemieux. The company said it planned to put Mario Lemieux kiosks throughout the Pittsburgh area during the next several months.

Power Interactive Media Inc. is an early-stage company incorporated in Florida and headquartered in Markham, Ontario. In addition to its new Baby Photo Kiosks, the company makes photo kiosks that put consumers in the picture with their choice of celebrities using images licensed from the National Football League, World Wrestling Federation, National Hockey League, Mattel and Universal Studios.