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Life Pebbles point the way out of a burning building
The grand prize winners of the recent Seoul Design Competition, Kim Woo-sik and Jun Yoo-ho of Korea's Konkuk University, inadvertently brought firefighting into the realm of sci-fi. Their creation is called the Life Pebble, a device that straps to the back of a firefighter and releases fluorescent pebble-like objects that help the firefighter find his way back out of a smoke-filled building. Despite the humorous human waste implied metaphor, and the device's resemblance to NOMAD, this is probably going to save lives in the future.
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By Kid Tech Guru at 5:02 AM ON 10/23/08
Wow...this looks absolutely cool and of course useful!
By N.A.T.E. at 10:54 AM ON 10/23/08
it's like high tech bread crumbs :)
By CoolProducts at 2:16 PM ON 10/24/08
How practical are little balls? Wouldn't they roll away? And what if the way out is somehow obstructed? I think the future will probably be some kind of gps via blueprint technology, but that may be a bit further down the road!
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