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Design
Squad Firefighter Positioning System
3:20AM Jesus Diaz | The Squad Firefighter Positioning System is like Jack Bauer’s PDA, which magically shows his position in a building plan. Except that firefighters would extinguish the fire, and Jack Bauer would probably set the building on fire. More »
Science
NASA Testing Next Generation Firefighting Gear for Fires… In Spaaace!
8:00AM Jack Loftus | In space, no one can hear you scream “Fire.” Not that it’d matter, as few people could recognise a microgravity fire anyway. This means space firefighting gear needs to be special. NASA is on it. More »
Design
Firefighters To Find Their Way Out Of Burning Buildings With… Glowing Neon Balls?
1:15AM John Mahoney | Life Pebbles won the grand prize award at the Seoul Design Competition, promising to help firefighters combat the disorientation of a burning by dropping a trail of neon-glowing capsules like Hansel-and-Gretel-style breadcrumbs on the way in. Interesting, perhaps, but at a time when location-aware augmented reality via all kinds of heads-up displays (and even mobile phones) is becoming more reality than dream, is a canister of periodically dropped glowing neon balls inspired by a fucking creepy 16th-century fairy tale really the answer to this problem? [Aving] More »
Gadgets
SLAM Helmet Maps Room to Help Rescuers Navigate Through Smoke
7:50AM Sean Fallon | Researchers are using a technique called simultaneous location and mapping (SLAM) to develop helmets that rescue workers can use to navigate through heavy smoke. The helmet features an infrared laser scanner and software that bounces signals off walls and uses that data to create a map of the surrounding area. More »
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