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Drones have revolutionised many industries already, including photography, military reconnaissance, and even sports video, but the latest drone innovation may save your life. A unique quadcopter drone developed for the beaches of Spanish Catalonia is designed to save drowning bathers by tossing them a lifejacket from the air. The drone is operated by rescue workers from the beach, which use a built-in video camera to navigate the quadcopter and life vest to a drowning swimmer and allows rescuers to monitor an emergency situation real-time. Developers claim the drone can reach a drowning bather in less than a minute, compared to a life guard, who usually takes up to three minutes. The drone is still being tested, but it could be saving lives by the end of the year.
A new emergency shelter, the Survival Capsule, was designed to help save lives during a tsunami.
Nissan announced a new driver-assistance technology, which is currently in-development, that utilizes highly accurate, real-time information about the vehicle’s surrounding environment to dramatically enhance collision avoidance. At a Nissan facility here, a test vehicle was used to demonstrate how this technology can automatically perform collision-avoidance maneuvers.Nissan’s “ground truth perception” technology fuses information from next-generation high-performance LIDAR, radar and cameras. The technology can detect the shape and distance of objects, as well as the structure of the area surrounding the vehicle, in real time with a high degree of accuracy. Utilizing this information, it is possible for the vehicle to instantly analyze the current situation, judge and automatically perform required collision-avoidance operations. This technology can also detect slowed traffic and road obstacles in the distance and execute lane changes accordingly. Importantly, the technology can also provide increased support to drivers in areas where detailed map information is not available.
Thingsai, Oct 15 (EFE/EPA).- Tian Chin is a Myanmar refugee in India who, like many others, is forced to secretly cross the border to save rice crops in his homeland, risking being caught by the army that has unleashed a reign of terror after ousting a civilian government.“If we do not harvest our rice, we have nothing for the future. We will have to scavenge for wild vegetables or beg," Chin's wife Dawt Hnem, 40, told EFE.Her husband and many of the menfolk, who have taken refuge in Thingsai village of the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, had gone to Fungkah village in Myanmar. (Camera: SANGZUALA HMAR). SHOT LIST: AN EFE INTERVIEW WITH DAWT HNEM, A 40-YEAR OLD WOMAN FROM CHIN STATE, MYANMAR, IN THINGSAI, INDIA.SOUND BITES: DAWT HNEM, A 40-YEAR OLD WOMAN FROM CHIN STATE, MYANMAR.- After the army dropped bombs on Sep. 9, we were very scared. We left our village in a hurry, we did not have time to grab our valuables, we hid in the forest and arrived at Thingsai village on Sep. 13.If we don't harvest our rice, we have nothing for the future. We will have to look for wild vegetables or beg elsewhere.Before my husband left, he told me that he would collect the rice and hide it in makeshift warehouses in the forest since there is no one in our village to stand guard. If you store our grains in our house, the army could come back. They will burn them or destroy them.
Geneva (Switzerland), May 23 (EFE) .- (Camera: Antonio Broto) Liberalizing patents for anticovid vaccines could save hundreds of thousands of lives, the Red Cross Health Director, Emanuele Capobianco, defends in an interview with Efe., on the eve of an annual assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) where this issue will be debated.FOOTAGE OF THE INTERVIEW WITH EMANUELE CAPOBLANCO, HEALTH DIRECTOR RED CROSS
Nairobi (Kenya), May 12 (EFE) .- (Camera: Patricia Martínez) Jemima Maina knows two things from her own experience: that when you need it most, maybe no one will help you and that if they hurt you to the soul, even walking hurts. Therefore, moments after being raped in Nairobi, the first thing she did was send an SMS with the word "help" looking for help. FOOTAGE OF A WORKER SHOWING HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS IN NAIROBISOUNDBITES OF VICTIMS AND WORKERS OF THE SYSTEMJanet Bahati, survivor of sexist violence (never sent an SMS, but today she receives psychological and financial support)00'25-00'37: "I felt a lot of stress, I felt like I wanted to end my life. (I couldn't do it) because I have children. When I started coming here I received help, I began to live with others and the psychologist gave me guidance".00'38-00'54: "The money they gave us to start our own business makes me busy, it makes me leave home and be busy."Jemima Maina, (not her real name, in order to secure her identity) rape survivor in the Nairobi suburb of Mukuru, who sought help via SMS00'54-01'12: "(The reporting system) via SMS is very simple because in a situation like this in which you do not know if it is safe to move, if the aggressor is still there, the best thing is that the help reaches You may find it difficult to go for help (after being raped). "01'13-01'25: "(After contacting 21094) they arrived very quickly and took me to the hospital, where I received the best medical care. I have also received psychological support."
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