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Tag Archives: Safety

The Lockey Bottle Safe

By David Ponce on 09/24/12 • Leave a comment!

Having kids is all fun and games, until they reach their teens and decide to start drinking. You can try to stop them, but you’ll likely be as successful at that as you’ll be trying to take a cat for a walk. At most you can do something to make sure they don’t get into your collection of wines and spirits, with the above Lockey. It’s pretty obvious what it does, isn’t it? Just plug that bottle up, and twist the top to lock it in place. That wine is going nowhere until you dial the combination in.

Well.. in theory. I remember this NYE party at a club once where a bottle of Champagne was passed around and happily ingested by everyone even after the neck had been broken off to get to the bubbly inside. So uh… at least you’ll know you tried.

It’s $20 a lock.

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The Monocle Helps Bicycle Riders Keep Their Organs On The Inside

By David Ponce on 09/19/12 • Leave a comment!

I’ve become obsessed with riding my bike and have been keeping an eye out for anything related to that. So when I saw the Monocle application/accessory that turns your iPhone into a blinking safety light, I was intrigued. You just pop your phone in a specially made holster that relocates it to the back of you, and the LED strobes at a frequency you determine. There’s a timer, so it won’t keep going even if you forget to turn it off and you get audible and vibrating alerts when the battery is getting low. The makers of the Monocle estimate that a 15 minute ride set at 3Hz will impact your battery by about 7%. You also get a case to protect the iPhone, by the way.

It’s a smart way to put a ubiquitous device to extra use, and could just make the difference between being turned into human spaghetti and making it home in one piece. It’s $18 for the app and the case, on pre-order now with delivery slated for December if they reach their funding goal.

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Helmet Sensor Device Calls For Help When You Crash

By David Ponce on 09/17/12 • Leave a comment!

If your ride comes to an abrupt end in the city, chances are there will be some living soul calling EMTs quickly. But the same can’t be said if you venture out on some secluded nature path and have a violent encounter with a tree trunk. The ICEdot Crash Sensor is a motion detector that can sense when you’ve crashed, and even evaluate the severity of that crash. Once paired through Bluetooth with its related application, the device will sound an alarm and initiate a countdown. If you don’t deactivate the alarm within the specified time the app will contact your emergency numbers and relay information about your location, as well as how serious a condition you might be in and other critical medical details (diabetes, allergies, etc.). Hopefully this way you won’t bleed out in some ditch. We like it: it’s smart and can’t hit the market soon enough. Unfortunately, availability is slated for “sometime next year” at roughly $200, which isn’t cheap and is pretty far from now, but hey, better late than never.

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Halo Belt Makes Sure You Get Spotted So You Won’t Get Run Over

By Hazel Chua on 08/15/12 • Leave a comment!

Halo Belt

Every year, over a million people die due to road traffic injuries and related incidents. Millions more figure in motor vehicle accidents that could have been prevented. In many instances, the accidents only happen because someone was being careless or wasn’t paying attention. Other times, it could be due to circumstances, like the road being too dark or the fact that there was blind corner where people thought there was none.

Now the Halo LED Belt might not be able to prevent all of these types of accidents from happening, but they will be able to make people easier to spot, especially those riding along in their bikes or crossing the road on a particularly dark night. Dubbed as the “World’s First LED Safety Belt”, the LED lighting emitted through thermoplastic polyurethane fiber optics on the belt increases a person’s visibility.

The Halo can also be used when you’re changing a tire on the side of the road or when you’re jogging. You can even use it as a fashion accessory and add to your visibility (and outfit!) during raves or parties.

Hit the jump for a video of Halo X, which are actually two Halo belts quicksnapped together.

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ChildMinder Device Helps You Not Forget Your Kid In The Car

By David Ponce on 07/02/12 • 3 Comments

By David Ponce

This happens? Yeah, we imagine it does. Your head is elsewhere, thinking of unicorns, you get to your destination and next thing you know you’re walking out of the car and leaving baby behind. Turns out this is not only illegal, it’s not so good for the kid. Who knew? But if you’ve got the ChildMinder device installed, you might get an audible reminder before it’s too late. It features either a weight sensing pad or a special clip with which you fasten baby, and a keyring alarm unit. If you walk further than 15 feet away from either, and the clip is still fastened or the pad senses weight, the keyring starts to scream. That’s your cue to go back and retrieve your bundle of joy.

It’s smart and simple and could avoid you jail time and dead babies, neither of which are very appealing. The system starts at $70.

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Bicycle Rearview Camera Seems Like It Could Come In Handy

By David Ponce on 06/28/12 • 1 Comment

By David Ponce

Life is already pretty miserable for cyclists everywhere. Latte sipping motorists in needlessly large cars are way too busy texting to pay any attention to anything on the road. So any piece of technology that makes a cyclists’ life easier is fine by us. The above Bicycle Rearview Camera sends a live feed of whatever is behind you so that you can keep focused on what’s in front and to the sides. The camera connects to the TFT screen via a 78 3/4″ zip-tied cable that accommodates any frame geometry and the battery in the monitor should last 10 hours on a 2 hour charge. There’s a quick-release mechanism so you don’t have to fiddle around when it’s time to take it in with you and a circular pattern of red LEDs flash when the camera’s built-in sensor detects low-light conditions for visibility to traffic. Finally, yes, it’s weatherproof so you can even take it out in the rain.

It’s $179.

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Mathematician Gets Patent For Wide Angle Mirror That Eliminates Blind Spots Without Causing Distortions

By David Ponce on 06/11/12 • 3 Comments

By David Ponce

In driving school they always teach you to check your blind spot. Once you start driving however, particularly if it’s a German car, you’re required to stop doing this. Signaling is also a thing of the past for most. But those of us who cling to our early teachings know that it’s important because regular mirrors suck. Turns out that Dr. Andrew Hicks of Drexel University has made them better. He’s created a specially curved mirror that gives a much wider angle of view without the typical distortion normally associated with these. Blind spots are gone.

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Protect Yourself And Stay Cool With This Air-Conditined Vest

By David Ponce on 05/17/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

It’s unfortunate but accurate to say that people who wish or need to wear bulletproof vests do so at the cost of sacrificing their comfort. This is true most of all in warm weather where they will often simply be covered in sweat all day, until the tim comes where bullets directed at them are no longer a possibility. But a vest created by a Swiss company called Empa aims to change this. It’s outfitted with a cooling pad that they call the CoolPad, which is a semi-porous pouch that contains water. This water is able to gradually evaporate, cooling the air around it as it does so. The effect is further enhanced with the use of two little fans, which circulate the cooler air over the wearer’s body. It’s good for three to four hours of use before either the water or the batteries run out. However, it’s possible to refill the CoolPad with another portable refill station while the portable fans are also easily exchanged with ones that have fresh batteries, making it possible for an entire police force or army contingent to stay comfortable throughout the day.

“The garment has been tested in warm weather by the Zürich City police force, which reportedly gave it good reviews. It is now on its way to commercial production, with the help of business partner Unico Swiss Tex. ”

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Wiss Auto-Retracting Knife Could Save A Fingertip Or Two

By David Ponce on 05/03/12 • Leave a comment!

By David Ponce

What makes box cutters great at cutting boxes open also happens to make them pretty great at cutting flesh. Sad but true. So that’s why we like the Wiss auto-retracting utility knife, old tech as it might be. To start cutting, you push the blade out with the slider button. But then a spring loaded mechanism retracts the glad as soon as you’ve made your cut, reducing the risk of injuries. To start cutting again you simply have to push the blade out once more. Some might find it inconvenient to have to push that blade out every time. To them we say, ‘suck it up’, because if you’re not able to take a third of a second extra in the name of safety, you shouldn’t be doing anything time consuming at all, seeing as you seem to have so little of it.

This low on tech but high on ingenuity knife also doesn’t break the bank: $15.

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