Emergencies

Mobile

Emergency Phone Has 15-Year Standby Time

2:40AM January 10, 2012 | Jamie Condliffe

Your car’s broken down. Your phone’s out of battery. Hell, it’s always out of battery these days. What do you do? Well, if Xpal Power has anything to do with it you’ll just pick up your Spare One. More »


News

Two-Year-Old Saves Mum’s Life By Making A Phone Call

3:51AM October 28, 2011 | Casey Chan

Lia Vega, a two-year-old girl, has been pretending to be a real-life superhero by cutely wearing a towel as a cape. Why? Because she saved her mum’s life by making a phone call no one knew she knew how to do. More »


News

Watch A Pilot Cooly, Calmly Ditch His Plane In The Pacific Ocean

2:00AM October 10, 2011 | Jack Loftus

After flying his fuel-strapped plane mere inches above the Pacific Ocean for an hour and a half, this pilot finally ditched his plane in the ocean without incident, emerged without injury, and was immediately rescued by the Coast Guard. Easy! More »


News

Russian Train Spill Dumps Giant Chemical Gas Cloud Over City

6:00AM September 3, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Transporting toxic gas in glass containers aboard a train sounds like something from a hurriedly written action movie, but no, it’s real life. And it’s particularly real life for Chelyabinsk, Russia, which now have a cloud of bromine floating above it. More »


Online

Irene Emergency Radio Tracker Site Set To Ambient Music Is Creepy

8:20AM August 27, 2011 | Mat Honan

Emergency radio during a hurricane is undeniably fascinating (and potentially life-saving). But you need to know where to listen. You Are Listening To tracks emergency radio for you, combining it with ambient music for a mesmerising, if creepy, experience. More »


News

How To Listen In On First Responder Calls During The Hurricane

6:20AM August 27, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

News outlets are going to frantically update you with Hurricane Irene info, but you can get a step ahead and listen directly to live feeds of first responder calls. Here’s how (and where). More »


Mobile

911 To Get MMS: Here Come The Emergency Cockshots?

10:45AM August 11, 2011 | Brent Rose

How horrible it is to be a 911 operator. You have to answer calls from screaming/injured/angry/crazy/dying people all day. Their job is about to get worse, as soon they’ll be able to receive texts, photos and video of that misery. More »


Gadgets

Virginia Tech Emergency Alert System Has 8 Ways Of Finding You

1:00PM August 5, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

After the 2007 massacre in which Seung Hui-Cho killed 33 people, Virginia Tech has gone to great lengths to improve its campus safety. The University’s latest system is designed to alert students and faculty whether they’re on campus or online. More »


Gadgets

6 Tools To Help Assemble A Modern First Aid KIt

9:00AM July 27, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Accidents happen. Disasters strike. Emergencies confront us. You don’t know when these things could happen, so you should be prepared. And in addition to the normal supply of bandages, antiseptics and painkillers, we rounded up six tech-minded first aid solutions. More »


Geek Out

Your Last Best Hope When Your Plane Catches On Fire

1:30AM July 14, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

So you’re sitting on the runway, waiting to taxi, when suddenly it hits you., “Funny, aeroplanes don’t normally smell like burning.” Then the panic hits. Don’t worry, if your airport has a Colet K/R40 Jaguar, you’ll probably be fine. More »