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5 New Technologies To Help During A Zombie Apocalypse [Infographic]
Just when I thought writing about the zombie apocalypse was soooo 2012, everyone's getting all juiced up for the 4th season of The Walking Dead, which starts next weekend. I'm not a big fan of television, but with shows like Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead, TV is better n ...
Solar Powered Smartphone Charging Stations In NYC Parks Starting Today
New Yorkers are typically away from home during the day, and far away from their smartphone chargers. Anyone who lives in a big city like NYC understands the importance of being able to charge on the go. With all the innovative mobile charging solutions we've seen introduced over the past few years, ...
$12 Basic Emergency Phone Emerges In China
I think a lot of people are sick and tired of having to constantly upgrade their phones. Some tech geeks would happily buy an upgraded smartphone several times a year if they could, but for some people, this lavish living is not an option. Don't get me wrong, upgrades are good, but it all comes with ...
Pebble Smartstick Is Your Marker-Sized Emergency Charger
As far as battery life on your mobile device goes, there is no getting around the fact that it will eventually run out. Until some clever innovator comes up with a way to harvest power from thin air, we will always run out of power when we least expect it. There is no shortage of solutions that will ...
GPS Cane Makes Growing Older A Digital Endeavor
If you worry about growing old because you think your physical and mental health might end up getting you into trouble in the real world, you should stop worrying. Technology is on the way to secure even the simplest tasks so that when we grow old, we won't have to worry about anything. The great th ...
Building In Shanghai Installs Deployable Emergency Slide
Safety should always be of great concern in every aspect of life. You might think your world is secured, anchored and safe, but things can change in an instant without any input from you. It's a lesson millions of people have learned through disasters, catastrophes and tragedies. Making sure you're ...
Emergency Solar Cooker Could Help Disaster Victims Recover Faster
When a disaster strikes, the preparations people have made never seem to be enough. Power is nowhere to be found, food is in short supply and people are shocked, scared and in complete disarray. More and more innovators are focusing on creating gadgets and devices to help the victims of these horrif ...
Emergency Flashlight Translates Communication Instantly
The world has seen its share of catastrophes, and with each one, we learn how to become a little bit more prepared. It's virtually impossible to foresee everything that might happen, and maybe that is why we are usually so unprepared when something bad actually happens. The world is unpredictable, a ...
Wrist Charger Puts An Emergency Power Source On Your Wrist
Most of us have at some point found ourselves in the annoying situation when our battery runs out on our mobile device. At that point, there is little to be done other than trying to find a power outlet or USB device so we can charge our device once again. When you start thinking about it, it's real ...
Chewing Gum Batteries Could Power All Our Gadgets In The Future
What do you do when seemingly the entire world is focused on creating the next groundbreaking gadget? What can you possibly do to leverage all that competition? Well, you invent the power source that is going to power all of those gadgets of course. That's probably the most sound advice anyone could ...
World’s Fastest Cockroach Robot Was Designed To Save Lives
The American cockroach is one of the fastest insects in the world (and the nastiest). People here spend a lot of money to keep those bugs out of their homes. Here in the south where I live, they can even fly. Our cockroaches are able to maintain their claim to fame when it comes to speed because the ...
Emergency Flashlight Runs On Any Size Batteries You Can Find
When the power goes out, we all find ourselves in a situation which is unnatural for most of us. Pretty much everything around us is dependent on electricity, and without it, it's almost like we are sent back into the stone age. There have been people working on emergency power devices for decades, ...
Hand-Crank Phone Charger (For When You’re Without Electricity)
Living without electricity is a big deal, and if you are blessed enough not to know what that feels like, try doing it for one day. It will be torture. Electricity is one of those things that we completely take for granted. If you think it's hard to live when your Internet goes out, try going withou ...
How To: Unlock Your Car With A Shoelace
When I was attending University, my roommates and I often used our driver's licenses (or any plastic card that size) to open the door to our dorm, and a coat hanger to open our locked cars. I don't know why, but apparently we couldn't be bothered with keeping our keys handy back then. As crafty as I ...
Fashion Designs That Transform Into Emergency Equipment
Do you know what a prepper is? I just learned about this a few days ago. A prepper is a person or group of people who believe that a catastrophe might be coming in the not so distant future (i.e. breakdown of the economy, a terrorist attack, a natural disaster), and they are preparing for it so when ...