All the stories tagged with safety
Breathometer Is A Smartphone Breathalyzer
03/13/2013, Breathometer claims to be the first smartphone breathalyzer (more on that below), which is a device that estimates the alcohol level in your blood by looking at its concentration in your breath. As you can see, this is a rather [...]
Car Pedestrian Collision Sensor Limits Injury Risk
02/15/2013, You never want to experience it, but whenever a pedestrian is involved in a collision with a car, his or her head can often suffer grave injuries due to a collision with hard elements underneath the hood, such as the [...]
Ford Lane Keeping System detects drowsy drivers
10/27/2011, If you’ve ever gotten sleepy behind the wheel, you would know how dangerous it can be. Well, the folks over at Ford have come up with a solution (even though the best solution is to just don’t drive when you’re [...]
Airbags for cellphones patented
08/12/2011, Just when you thought patents couldn’t get any crazier, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos; and Amazon’s VP, Greg Hart; have been recently awarded a new patent that is likely to be in the running for gold in this year’s most ridiculous [...]
Moto-Grip keeps motorcycle passengers safe on rides
08/09/2011, Motorcycles can be pretty dangerous vehicles, especially when there’s an additional passenger involved. Since they don’t have safety belts, the rear passenger has to find something to hold on to while the bike is moving, and it usually turns out [...]
Inflatable helmet pad makes your helmets safer
07/15/2011, While helmets are required by law to be worn at all times when cycling or on a motorbike, the size and fitting of a helmet isn’t regulated by the government. And even though it is always safer to wear a [...]
FireText smoke alarm will automatically text up to four numbers during an emergency
07/11/2011, Smoke alarms are both a blessing and a curse. A curse when you’re cooking or toasting bread, and the minute your culinary creation gets slightly burnt, there goes the alarm. Jokes aside, smoke alarms can be lifesavers, notifying us in [...]
Freescale 77GHz radar system makes it safer to drive in difficult conditions
06/27/2011, While some of us may live in a place where it’s sunny all the time, most of us aren’t so fortunate and have to endure difficult conditions when driving; heavy rain, fog, and even animals crossing the roads in the [...]
Magellan Back-Up Camera reduces car reverse accidents
06/22/2011, A large number of cars available on the market today feature rear view cameras that are pretty irreplaceable when it comes to helping drivers reverse their vehicles. It makes parking so much easier and makes sure that drivers don’t hit [...]
Blaze helps bikers avoid getting hit while on the road
06/11/2011, If you remember the Pico Projector bicycles that were used a couple of weeks ago to create lanes for the cyclists to cycle around in – well it looks like they’re not the only ones with such an idea. A [...]
Nissan LEAF awarded five stars from the Euro NCAP
05/26/2011, 2011′s World Car of the year, the Nissan LEAF was recently awarded another trophy to place on top of its fireplace. The Nissan Leaf is the first electric vehicle (EV) to ever be awarded five stars from the Euro NCAP [...]
BMW developing vehicle warning system to help you with your left turns
05/16/2011, Folks who are prone to causing accidents when making left turns will be glad to know that in the future, they won’t have to worry so much – just as long as they’re driving a BMW vehicle. The German car [...]
Ford starts building digital children crash dummies
03/31/2011, Ford announced that they have officially started work on building a digital human child, complete with its internal organs, skeleton structure and brain, all in the name of safety research. Car safety testing has been going on for years now, [...]
