We know the venerable black box can survive a harrowing plane crash, but what about falling from orbit? More »
To celebrate Australia Day this week, we’re looking at some of the best inventions to ever come out of our sunburnt country. Today, we pay homage to David Warren, who completely changed aviation safety by creating the Black Box flight recorder. More »
A flight data recorder – the “black box” in every commercial aeroplane – is a crucial tool for dissecting what went wrong in the aftermath of a crash. Here’s the key to its survival. More »
Any time a plane goes down, the black box recorder, once again, becomes a mythical machine whispered about in the back alleys of news broadcasts. So Wired assembled a technological rundown on the device.
We mentioned the Problem Steps Recorder blackbox error reporting app back in our Win 7 Giz Explains, but it wasn’t until I tried it for myself that I saw just how amazing it is.
There are few things in this world that are more infuriating than getting into a car accident–but one of those things would definitely be getting into an accident where the blame is being disputed. For the innocent party, a Roadscan Drive Recorder could be indispensable. The device mounts easily on your windshield or rearview mirror, and will continuously record graphical 3D-G accelerations data. If you happen to get into an accident, it will save the digital video starting 14 seconds before the incident and 6 seconds after–so you would be armed with all of the data you need to dispute a ticket. Or totally incriminate yourself.
