Cops got laptops, ambu-lance drivers got mobile phones, and now look, they’re all running us over and making us dead. This is a concern right now! So should you be outraged and/or scared? Probably not. More »
All joking aside, there are plenty of places in the world where getting speedy medical attention is difficult. And that’s where the Jaambaaro concept from designer Benoît Angibaud comes in. It’s a two-person pedal-powered ambulance, designed to get the sick and wounded to hospital in areas where motor vehicles are rare. It would have solar panels to help generate some energy, and be made of locally-salvaged materials. Great idea, though I have to admit the first thing that came to mind when seeing the stretcher’s blister canopy was a short dude in glasses, shouting “Choppers!”… [Yanko Design]
You may think someone over in Israel’s Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies had been watching one too many episodes of The Jetsons, but no… this is a real project. It looks like an Israeli consortium, led by the Fisher Institute, is attempting to put together the world’s first unpiloted battlefield resupply and evacuation aircraft, dubbed “MedUAV.” And as the strangely 1960s sci-fi concept drawing shows, it could take the form of a ducted-fan VTOL air car.
Canadian Paramedics can breathe a sigh of relief, unbuckle their corset belts and cancel their chiropractor’s appointments – if they work in Calgary, that is. The city has taken delivery of an ambulance designed to get its obese citizens to hospital with as little stress and strain as possible – provided they don’t tip the scales at more than 1000 lbs.
The refit, which costs more than $30,000 per vehicle, includes a specially designed air mattress that inflates beneath the patient to transfer him to the stretcher (reinforced and widened, natch) and a remote lift system that raises the stretcher into the ambulance. More »
