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Hi Tech, Wireless Help for Climbers

Posted by michael on from the rather-have-more-pitons dept.

Mark Baard writes "Alpinists may soon be using wearable sensors and tricorder-like medical scanners to bail out their buried comrades. Computer scientists Bernt Schiele and Florian Michahelles, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, are designing A-Life, a portable device that transmits and receives avalanche victims' vital signs through snow, up to 80 meters away."

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  1. Just think... by GabrielStrange · · Score: 3, Funny

    If Microsoft gets involved with these somehow, the Blue Screen of Death could really mean going blue and then dead... :P

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