Emergency
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Aerospace and defense company Inversion is showing off its solution to getting emergency supplies anywhere on Earth in under an hour. It's a constellation of the company's Arc orbital supply craft, fully stocked and ready to drop at a moment's notice.
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We know Lifestraw best for lightweight, ultraportable water filter and purification products aimed at backcountry use, but its all-new Escape is a different beast. The jug supplies groups with over 5 gallons of clean drinking water per fill-up.
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Electric microcars offer a clean and quiet way to zip around city streets. The latest model from GEM is certainly clean, but not so quiet thanks to a 124-dB siren. This is part of a compact low-speed ambulance designed for localized emergency response.
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Enola Gaye has nearly 30 years of experience with smoke and paint grenades. Now it's putting that experience into a pull-activated firestarter for wilderness survival. The Ultimate Match can ignite underwater before firing out a mini inferno.
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Hydrogen-fueled trucks can keep thousands of tons of carbon out of the air every year. A prototype rescue truck from the US Department of Energy shows just how viable the clean-burning haulers are becoming – by bagging a new world record.
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If a medical professional has ever had a hard time getting a needle into your veins, you'll welcome this new gizmo from Adison Technology. By effectively turning your skin transparent, it makes needle sticks more accurate and therefore less painful.
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Huge props to these two helicopter test pilots, who have white-knuckled it through one of the most harrowing experiences in rotorcraft flight – an unpowered autorotation emergency landing – allowing an autonomous system to take the controls.
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Back in 2021, researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden partnered with Everdrone to test drone delivery of defibrillators to real-world heart attacks victims. Now the company has announced a multipurpose drone to support first responders.
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The warning signs of a deadly out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest differ significantly between the sexes, a study has found. Researchers hope their research will improve survival rates and educate people about when to call emergency services.
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MIT scientists have developed a synthetic system that can stem internal bleeding, to help save lives after a traumatic injury. Two components come together at a wound to form a clot, without doing so elsewhere in the body where it might be dangerous.
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Interest in outdoor recreation has soared since the Covid-19 pandemic. It's no wonder, then, that manufacturers launched innovative products throughout 2022 to help athletes go farther, faster and deeper into the backcountry. Here are the highlights.
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The knife may be the center of the multitool universe, but the axe appears more often than one might expect. The Roamer NOA is the latest survival multi-axe, packing over half a dozen functions into a modular handle below its razor-sharp axe blade.
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