Emergency beacons are great insurance for aviators and sailors, but they aren't worth much if a disaster leaves you in one place and the beacon in another. Just to be safe, you might as well strap the ...

A Search and Rescue volunteer glides down to the ground on a line from the Sheriff Department's Huey helicopter with cloud cover above as part of an August 2012 training exercise at Taylor's Landing ...

Earlier this week, Apple announced the key features of the iPhone 14, along with the new Apple Watches. Everyone got to enjoy the usual presentation, where everything is better than before, while the ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Do you know what an emergency response beacon or“ERB” is? Do you know what it does? Do you know which beaches have one? If you answered“nope!” to any of those questions, you ...

July 31, 2007 In remote emergency situations, simply being located quickly by response teams can mean the difference between life and death. For example if you’re trapped under debris and found within ...

FlareAlert introduces our Emergency LED Beacon Kits. Designed for professional firefighters, law enforcement, and military, as well as personal emergency use. Unlike incendiary strike flares, ...

A new patent describes multiple ways in which an iPhone could use cell signals, wi-fi or even other nearby devices to get an emergency distress beacon out, plus ways of prolonging the battery until ...

Boeing has asked airlines to inspect up to 1,200 aircraft across its fleet to gather data on Honeywell emergency beacons that have come under scrutiny following a fire on a parked 787 Dreamliner two ...

Bob Parks (@bobparks) writes from the hills of Vermont. He is an avid runner (2:54:20, Boston Marathon, 2014) and a huge fan of new inventions. If you’re not 100% familiar with emergency beacons, that ...