Natural disasters and accidents happen with little or NO warnings. One of the best ways to deal with such situations is by being a bit prepared. By being prepared I mean more than just the First Aid Box; stuff like lights, shelter, tools, supplies, installations and kits that can help you deal with emergencies. Here’s a look at Ten Necessities When Disaster Strikes; a compilation of what we got on YD.
10) Swiss Peace Knife by Qian Jiang, Yiying Wu & Carolina Flores
What’s Special: A pocket tool that holds a pill box, bandages, disinfectant spray and whistle.
9) Unified Sprinkler And Light by Duck Image Studio
What’s Special: A water sprinkler system that includes an LED light system to illuminate the room during emergencies.
What’s Special: Almost always water is in of short supply during the salvaging operations and at the disaster site. H2O is a specialized container that turns urine into drinkable water. Before you go ewww…consider this…dying parched or drinking re-cycled pee?
7) Disposable Pre-Paid Phone by IDEA
What’s Special: This disposable phone can be worn like a bracelet and has very basic features. It’s meant for quick calls for help and supports pre-paid services.
6) Ocean Rescue by Seol-Hee Sohn, Seung-Hyun Yoon & Cheol-Yeon Cho
What’s Special: The Ocean Rescue distills the salty sea water into pure drinking water, it provides location information of the ship-wrecked victims by emitting light at night and colorful smoke during the day.
5) Recover Shelter by Matthew Malone, Amanda Goldberg, Jennifer Metcalf and Grant Meacham
What’s Special: Designed for disaster relief, the Recover Shelter can house a family of four for a month. It can be set up by one person in minutes, collapsed into either of two configurations for transportation (horse-shoe shape or flat), and is made of 100% polypropylene. Another big plus is that the ridges can collect drinking water when it rains.
What’s Special: The Wizard is a safety-harness that can help people get off buildings during an emergency. It uses webbing woven from liquid polyester capable of withstanding forces in excess of 2 tonnes. Engineering plastics based on semi-crystalline polyamides were specified for the case and internal drum, encasing a cassette spring recoil system capable of deploying a 50-250m Kevlar lanyard.
3) Emergency Stool by d e Sellers
What’s Special: Wall mounted and unassuming, this flat-pack Baltic Birch plywood opens up to form an Emergency Stool to help you climb out of sticky situations.
2) The Shooter Fire Extinguisher by Eunjung Kim, Yangwoo Kim & Junyi Heo
What’s Special: This Shooter is a light weight gun loaded with CO2 cartridges. A laser guidance system helps you take aim and an alarm button to let the rest of the gang know your position.
1) Pullight Dynamo by Sebastien Sauvage
What’s Special: This flashlight is powered by stored kinetic energy built up from pulling a string. The dynamo can charge devices like a mobile phone or iPod, making it the perfect handy device during an emergency situation!
Wow! These are really an amazing and usefull gadget, which will help us to survive during disaster……
Some pretty innovative products shown here.
Love the pullight
Love the pullight