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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. FreeBSD? by It's+me...+Joey! · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't understand... Is free BSD buried under an avalache? God I hope so, that way we won't have to listen to BSD users tell us what we are missing out on.

  2. Huh? by I+Am+The+Owl · · Score: 1, Troll
    wearable sensors and tricorder-like medical scanners

    What in the world is a tricorder? Couldn't they have at least provided a link in the article for those of us not steeped in the terminology of computer science?

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