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Incredible Inventions That Can Save Your Life · Be Amazed

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  [SPEAKER_00]: From refrigerators to radiosin, cars to coffee machines that human races come up with some pretty ingenious everyday inventions.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But as impressive as these are, they're not exactly lifesavers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, apart from the coffee machine, I need coffee.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: From Earthquake proved bids to shark repelling bracelets and even slime robots.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, slime robots.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here are some incredible inventions that could save your life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine this, bureau snowed up, cozy and warm and bed gently drifting off to sleep.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When all of a sudden the walls are shaking, the window shatter, the ceiling above you cracks and gives way, it's an earthquake.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Between 1998 and 2017, earthquakes took the lives of more than 750,000 people around the world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The majority of which perish due to falling debris.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, they're a very real and very nasty threat, particularly at night.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Being a sleeping bed isn't the position you want to be in while your house collapses on top of you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: After all, your pillows aren't going to do much to save you from being crushed by a falling ceiling.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But it's strange as it sounds, Chinese inventor Wang Wang Z created a concept that makes you
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At first glance, it looks like any old bed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yet this sleeping station is built with tremor sensors which when triggered, cause the bed's base to open up, swallowing the sleeper up and cocooning them inside a rigid metal frame.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A protective slated lid then arose over the frame turning what was a bed into an earthquake-resistant box.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it may seem suspiciously like getting locked in your own private cup and the bed's chamber contains flashlights, medical kits, loud whistles, and supplies of water and food that can last up to 20 days.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That seems kind of excessive, why so much?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: While rubble is not an easy thing to clear, depending on where you are in the world, it can take weeks to get to people buried under an entire building's worth of heavy rubble.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Wang's pattern also suggested multiple ways this could work, including a version for a wider double bed involving the mattress holding in on the sleepers before a metal top sides over them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was this design that moved to the prototype phase back in 2012, showcasing how it could quickly and easily protect a sleeping couple.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Instead of the flat roof shown in the concept, the triangular roof is angled to prevent debris gathering on top of the box while still
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  [SPEAKER_00]: While these beds aren't currently available to buy, just knowing they exist means I'm going to sleep sound late at night.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Between 1998 and 2017, Sunami's caused over 250,000 fatalities around the world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Whilst statistically they're not as deadly as earthquakes these walls of water are capable of traveling at jet plane speeds of 500 miles per hour, flooding up to 10 miles inland with enough power to tear through anything in their path once they hit the shore.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, almost anything?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You see, engineers, Julian Sharper and Scott Hill came up with the tsunami survival capsule.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A spherical watertight boy and ball made from aircraft-grade aluminum designed to withstand sharp object penetration and heat exposure, providing protection for up to 10 people.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They've disaster strikes, so you have to do is get in, strap in, sit back, relax, wait for the tsunami to pass?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, and close the door, obviously.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Similar versions such as the rescue pod have been tested thoroughly, and I mean thoroughly.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like putting someone in one and throwing them over a cliff kind of thoroughly.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These pods are installed on rooftops of at-risk areas, so if the building collapses, they won't be trapped under it and can float to safety.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The interior of the capsule is fitted with seats and storage for five days worth of supplies per person.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And anyone feeling adventurous can even purchase bonus features like dry pounder toilet facilities, internal lighting, and even a surround sound music system.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because anyone that's trying to survive, she and Mommy will be in the mood up above the volume.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Unsurprisingly, these crazy capsules that don't come cheap.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A two-person tsunami survival capsule starts at $13,500.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sounds pricey, but that's nothing compared to the four-person capsule, which will set you back in eyewatering $17,500.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, if you can afford it, it sounds like a great place to be, well, all hell breaks lose around you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of the shoes backpacks every day, and they're all the same, really, but this next backpack is different because it could save your life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, this guy's favor may look like any other backpack, but inside the zips is a controlled descent device, a portable emergency evacuation kit used for scaling down high-rise buildings during emergencies like fires or earthquakes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Usually, if you were trapped in such terrifying circumstances, you'd have to choose between jumping on a window and somehow landing more than a hundred feet without becoming a human pancake, or stay put and praying that the fire dies out before the flames engulf you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, I'm not a fan of either of those options.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's where the sky savers saves the day.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All you need to do is attach its fire-resistant cable to a secure anchor point, buckle up the harness and exit via the nearest window to safely descend.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The controlled descent device takes it from there automatically lowering you down and around six and a half feet per second.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: With a maximum carry weight of 300 pounds, they're strong enough to support an average adult and young child down in one trip, or if you don't have kids, fight out can come down with you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, whatever matters to you most, I guess.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, though, turning into Spider-Man doesn't come at a cut price.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At their lowest price point, the single self-rescue kit complete with an 80-foot long cable costs $1,485.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But anyone looking to really splash the cash can buy the $2,370 family kit which comes with a baby harness and a 260-foot long cable.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll if that's what it cost and not be scooped off the pavement with a spatula and take my money.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Fortunately not all life-saving gizmoser priced as painfully as the sky-saver.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Take the GTFO wrist strap which comes in at just $7.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The strap is made of an elastic material, but its beat is made of tungsten carbide, a dense compound so strong that it's used in armor piercing ammunition.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You may be wondering what the point of this wacky wrist strap is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, this bullish bracelet comes in handy if ever you're stuck in a car.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Whether the vehicle's crashed, filling with water, or even if you're being kidnapped, the GTFO can help you escape.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, all the user has to do is remove the wrist strap before aiming for the window and firing the bead from their thumb and forefinger like a slingshot.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The tungsten carbide bead has the capacity to smash tempered carglass, shattering it, and allowing the strap back to it to escape the vehicle.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a whole lot cooler than just a teeny bracelet now, isn't it?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Next up around 1 and 3 of us has an intense fear of snakes, and it's not hard to see why.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Every year around 2.7 million people are bitten by venomous viper's with about 100,000 of these victims not making it through the Ordeal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Even in less severe cases, Snake and Venomation can lead to bruising around the bite, excessive salivation, and a rapid heart rate.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But imagine you were bitten while walking in the wilderness miles away from any help.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Safe to say, your odds of survival are looking great.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and that's where the Sawyer Extractor supposedly comes in.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By blazing the suction device over the bite and pushing the bump down it creates a vacuum chamber sucking any recently injected Venom out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's just $15.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That sounds too good to be true.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Because it is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Scientific studies have shown that these devices are incapable of removing enough venom to prevent the majority of it from pumping around the bloodstream.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You may have seen in movies or TV shows that people suck at a wound to draw the venom out, but injected venom spreads through the victim's system so quickly that there's no hope of sucking out a sufficient amount to make any difference.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Using a turner kit to try and cut off circulation also isn't a great move because venom that stays concentrated in any part of the body will rapidly destroy the cells there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Allowing the attacks into spread and dilute actually reduces tissue damage.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: With all that said, the only effective treatment is a dose of anti-venom, so getting to the nearest medical facility is a must.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And on fall for anyone trying to tell you otherwise, they probably just trying to sell you snake oil.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Picture this, you're at the beach enjoying a nice relaxing stroll when all of a sudden the water swells up and drags you out into the open ocean.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You try to swim back to land, but a rip current pulls you further and further out to see.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can see people on the beach calling for help, but there's no life guards.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're exhausted, you're cold, you don't know how much longer you can keep your head above the waves.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sadly, thousands of people find themselves in this very situation every year, with over 100 in the US alone not making it out alive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But just as you're about to give up hope, something suddenly flies up above you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Is it a bird?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A plane?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Nope, it's a life drone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Designed by Hyun Jun Choi, this conceptual life-saving device relies on two connected boards containing four propellers to fly over the waves towards the location of the person in danger.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A floatation device attached to its base then inflates before its propellers fold up and it drops down into the water transforming into a life raft.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Once the person is clambered onto the raft, the drone's propellers turn the raft into a motorboat transporting the individual to the shore.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's an incredible concept that would prevent live guards or anyone else from risking their own lives to rescue those stuck in such dangerous positions.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, it's unclear exactly how the drones would locate the individual at sea, or if it'd be autonomous.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Even so, I hope this becomes more than just a concept in the near future.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sick of wearing my water wings on the beach.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Back in 2014, Nathan Garrison created something to deal with one very particular ocean threat.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sharks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, and oh, there were around 2,900 shark attacks between 1958 and 2023, with over 20% being fatal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So you may be wondering what Garrison's shark's solution was?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Some sort of 007-stale mini-harpoon?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A Batman-stale shark spray repellent?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Or just a real big gun?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not quite.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He actually came up with a $110 bracelet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Shark bands utilizes powerful magnets to create an effective magnetic field around the bracelet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It may not seem like much of a deterrent, but sharks have an electro-reception sensory system in their snouts and jaws, which they used to navigate the waters.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So when they approach the shark bands magnetic field, their electro-reception can become overstimulated, inhibiting their ability to hunt and navigate.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Marine biologists have compared the situation to when our eyes are exposed to a bright light in a dark room and we all know when comfortable that is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: To prove how effective it is, SharkBrances creators lined a mannequin sock with bait along with a single shark bands and then floated it out into shark and fisting waters.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: While these sharks were hungry for over 30 minutes, none of them dared take a bite at the foot or even took bait near the foot.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They then tested the foot again this time without the bans and in less than two minutes these sharks were happy to shout out on the mannequin's ankle.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But as ingenious as they seem, shark bans hasn't always put off these ocean critters.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Back in 2016, a 14-year-old server was bitten on the arm by a shark despite wearing a shark bed's bracelet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, it didn't help that this kid effectively jumped off a surfboard and onto a shark he hadn't spotted beneath him, but still.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These devices are precautionary measures and while they're not guaranteed to stop every shark attack, I'd argue that not jumping on a shark is also a great way to prevent becoming launch.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I admit it after all the episodes I did about scary aviation stores I'm officially afraid of lying.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a totally rational fear to have considering over 80,000 people have passed away in aviation accident since 1970.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Fortunately though, Ukrainian engineer Vladimir Tuttarenko has come up with something that could ensure that number doesn't climb any higher.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: During flying his creation looks like an yield aircraft.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, in emergency situations, the planes cabin can fully detach.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now it may look like it's destined for a crash landing, but Tanto Rinko's cabin could be fitted with industrial-sized parachutes on its roof, which instantly releases soon as it detaches.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not explicitly stated what the shoot strings are made out of, but considering the fuselage of a standard passenger plane weighs in around 350,000 pounds, and that's when it's not full of passengers, they need to be comprised of an ultra-resistant carbon
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And, for that extra bit of safety, the base of the cabin would be fitted with long rubber tubes that inflate cushioning the impact on land or keeping the cabin afloat on water.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Although it may seem like a fontless plant territory, goes airplane system hasn't had the go ahead yet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The design would reduce the plane's seating capacity and increase fuel usage, leading to plane prices rising.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On top of that, the odds of being in an aircraft disaster are actually incredibly low.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In 2022, there was just one fatal airplane accident for every six and a half million flights.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In considering the price of your tickets that come with that Arinko's invention, it's currently not at the top of any airlines wish list.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, if BMA's dear lines ever takes to this guy's, you know exactly which plane design will be using.
• 15:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Next up, whizzing around sharp bends at over 200 miles per hour with nothing but a helmet and a leather suit between you and the road.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's fair to say motorbike riders have good owners of steel.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: With no external frame to protect riders in the event of a crash, it's no wonder that the fatality rate for motorbike accidents is a staggering 50 times higher than that of car accidents.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But French entrepreneur Gorard Devonop is looking to improve those troubling statistics with the He-Light Airbag.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Unlike cars most motorbike manufacturers don't build in airbags as standard, there's just not enough space, and while the riders more likely to fly off, they're not as effective as they would be in a car.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not that that's a problem for this ingenious invention, because this airbag isn't on the motorbike, it's on the rider.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, the helite turtle to air vest is a deployable airbag that riders can wear.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In case of a fall, a tether attached to the vest will trigger a replaceable carbon dioxide canister, which will inflate the airbag vest in 0.094 seconds, faster than you can blink.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When blown up, the airbag offers optimal projection to the back kidneys, chest and hips while also stabilizing the head and neck.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If that wasn't enough, the back of the vest is made from S-A-S-T-E-C armor, a protective material that creates a turtle-like protective shell for the writer.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Any dude-evils looking to get their hands on this piece of turdily-assum kit won't get a cheap, with the vest selling for around $700.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Still, I'd rather fork out on this airbag vest than become asphalt mats, thank you very much.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When a massive snow on a mountain top is destabilized, it can slide downhill, causing an avalanche.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And trust me, you don't want to get stuck in the middle of one of these.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Large avalanches can contain as much as a million tons of snow and travel faster than 200 miles per hour.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So no matter how fast you can ski, you can escape these dead traps, and as such they take the lives of more than 150 people every year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But there is a way to avoid this fate and it involves an airbag.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: way, an airbag.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But when I'm talking about road collisions or crashes here, how can an airbag save you from being annihilated by an avalanche?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it won't stop you from getting swept away.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It may prevent you from being buried deep underneath the snow.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now you have to do as pull the handle attached to the shoulder strap and a pressurized cartridge inflates at airbag above a user's backpack in seconds.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Great, but how exactly is this meant to help?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, there's a principle known as granular convection.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is where shaking or rotating motions comes particles to roll over each other with smaller ones falling through the spaces between the larger particles forcing the larger particles to the surface.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So when smaller snow particles are shaken, they're more likely to settle into the spaces between the large item, aka a human and their voluminous airbag.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So anyone who suddenly finds themselves in the midst of an avalanche can pull that cord and know they'll end up closer to the top rather than being buried at the bottom.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Don't just take my word for it though, studies have shown that the survival rate of avalanche victims is 11% higher with those that deploy airbags.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Man, it's no joke, these things really are lifesavers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, let's say you did go skiing without your airbag and you did trigger an avalanche and now you're stuck somewhere under a freezing slope of snow where you might freeze to death.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I've got good news and bad news.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The good news is you probably won't freeze to death.
• 19:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ooh!
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The bad news is that's because you'll probably suffocate long before you freeze.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Is it too late to take back that woohoo?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A recent study found that suffocation was responsible for three-quarters of avalanche fatalities while hypothermia accounted for just 1%.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Being buried within tightly packed snow causes the victim's own breath, the gradually replaced the breathable oxygen with more and more carbon doing oxide.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: After 35 minutes stuck in the snow chances of survival are just 37%.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: To make matters even worse, packed snow gradually becomes dense like concrete, meaning movement is almost impossible.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So chances of someone reaching into their backpack and grabbing something like an oxygen mask or practically zero, entered the safe bag, an air supply system worn on the user's back enabling them to breathe in an avalanche burial without a mouthpiece.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now it takes to activate the device as a simple pool of the handle on the item shoulder strap.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: From here, the safe back retrieves clean air from behind the user's back before pumping it through to two nozzles by their shoulders.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The nozzles will punks oxygen around the person's mouth and dilute the carbon dioxide levels at the same time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This ingenious idea is crucial for anyone buried in an avalanche with survival time underneath this no jumping to 90 minutes for safe back users.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As a result, rescuers have more vital minutes to drag victims out of the snowstack.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Make that avalanche zero in genius inventors, too.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Whether you're looking to scrub your body or a clean the kitchen, a sponge is typically the item you'd turn to, but what if I told you that these things could do much more than scrub?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What if I told you they could save your freaking life?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it sounds like I've got a screw loose, but revmedics have created a syringe device back with 92 circular sponges designed to save soldiers and civilians from some of the nastiest wounds possible.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Those inflicted by gunshots.
• 21:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: It can take as little as 3 minutes for someone to lose enough blood for it to have fatal consequences, but how do some tiny sponges save a life?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: While the X-Stat works by injecting small sponges into a wound cavity with a simple syringe applicator.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In the wound each smonges capable of absorbing 3 milliliters of blood, collectively, they can swell and fill the wound cavity within 20 seconds, stopping bleeding without manual compression.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Extant super sponges are effective at preventing blood loss for up to 4 hours giving wounded victims enough time to reach a medical facility where their injuries can be properly treated.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Save to say that anyone whose life has been saved by these super sponges is ecstatic that this device exists.
• 22:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: As someone who's always cold, I love gloves.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But beyond heating up your hands, did you know these things can actually save your hands from being blown up pieces?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, one type of glove in particular.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Randy Schmentz has designed a pair of gloves that are virtually indestructible.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: His creation, which goes by the awesome name of Schmitz Mitz, was made for first responders
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The outer layer of the gloves is made from armor-tex Kevlar, a durable abrasion-resistant fabric.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Carbon fiber bumpers cover the fingers and thumbs.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: making your digits virtually smash proof.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And atop it off the protective inner liners are made up of slash and chemical resistant layers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If your draw somehow isn't on the floor yet, these gloves are also heat-resistant.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So much so that the palms can withstand temperatures of up to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit and face 20 seconds of direct contact with flames.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now you'd be forgiven for thinking these great gloves would cost you an arm and a leg but you can get a pair for under $90.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Pretty reasonable for turning into Superman.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, super hand anyway.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I need you to imagine that you feel awful so you've gone to see a doctor.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They do all the tests and then announce that they know what's wrong and they can fix you up no problem.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I have to do is, so something that looks like a moving turd.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Mad as it seems researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have created a soft robot.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Although they're not technically robots, the glove is actually controlled by magnets.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's made up of magnetic particles suspended in a slime material made from polyvinyl alcohol and borax.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: After inserting this gooey glove into a person's body, it's controlled and moved by a magnet outside of a patient.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks to its viscous structure, the slime can squeeze through tight spaces in the body to recover life-threatening objects that have been accidentally swallowed, like batteries.
• 24:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: But benevolent is these gooey guardians seem, there's one slight problem.
• 24:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Despite their ability to retrieve potentially lead the logics, the Slym's magnetic particles are toxic.
• 25:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, probably not something you want slithering through your insides.
• 25:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Scientists are currently working on a failproof protective layer that prevents the Slym from a mitting toxic particles inside the body, so your doctor might actually suggest you swallow a soft robot in the near future.
• 25:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: With the time being though, try your best not to swallow any batteries.
• 25:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I got!
• 25:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Look around!
• 25:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Everything's on fire.
• 25:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: What are you waiting for?
• 25:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Quick!
• 25:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Go grab your nearest fire extinguisher.
• 25:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Right now, how does it work?
• 25:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Wait, what kind of fire does it?
• 25:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you press the handle or should you pull out the nozzle first, then?
• 25:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is a life or burned a death situation and you don't have any idea of fire extinguisher works
• 25:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you and almost everyone else.
• 25:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Astoundingly, 90% of people don't know how to use a basic fire extinguisher.
• 25:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Me included.
• 25:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Doug about playing with fire.
• 25:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Fortunately, though, there exists a product that saves us from our amateur fire extinguisher skills, introducing the fire extinguishing ball.
• 26:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: This Pokeball looking device created by E-Lide Fire is the world's first self-activating handheld fire extinguisher capable of putting out all classes of fire.
• 26:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Phew, so no need to worry about any handles or nozzles or fire sources.
• 26:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Just make sure you threw the ball on the fire.
• 26:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Simple.
• 26:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: But how can a ball put out a fire?
• 26:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, just three seconds after making contact with a flame
• 26:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: An instant blast occurs are moving oxygen from the fire area, which is one thing all fires need to burn.
• 26:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: While dispersing a dry chemical powder to quickly extinguish any remaining flames, and with a puff of smoke the fire is gone.
• 26:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Who'd teeny would be proud?
• 26:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Currently two different sized fire extinguisher balls exist.
• 26:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: The 4-inch diameter model will
• 27:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Even more impressively, the six-inch wide-balk and put out fires over an area of 24 feet, although this bad boy comes in at a slightly price here, $120.
• 27:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Still, that's a lot cheaper than buying a whole new house, right?
• 27:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Better say that these fire extinguishing balls aren't lit.
• 27:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Which of these incredible lifesaving inventions did you find the most ingenious, and will you be buying any for yourself?
• 27:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for listening.
• 27:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is gonna be the best.