Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Earthquake survival…They had an app for that

Awaiting his fate
Woolley is nearsighted and lost his glasses in the quake. But by using the focusing light on his camera and taking pictures, he was able to figure out where he was and where to go. And thanks to the iPhone first-aid app he’d downloaded, he knew how to fashion a bandage and tourniquet for his leg and to stop the bleeding from his head wound. The app also warned him not to fall asleep if he felt he was going into shock, so he set his cell phone’s alarm clock to go off every 20 minutes.

 

The above is from an interview a US survivor did with the Today show.  http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34933053/ns/today-today_people/

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