“It’s about 2 o’clock on a Sunday afternoon. You’re at Wal-Mart, grocery list in hand, doing your shopping for the week. When you turn the corner pushing your cart from produce to dairy, an alert sounds on your iPhone,” Kym McNicholas reports for Forbes.
“Someone is in need of emergency medical assistance at the Chevron gas station across the street. Yes, there’s an app for that,” McNicholas reports. “The San Ramon Fire Protection District, which is located east of Silicon Valley, has released an app that notifies people who are trained in CPR when someone is having a heart attack nearby.”
McNicholas reports, “The App is only available for use in San Ramon right now but thanks to the help of a Bay Area billionaire… fire stations across the country will be able to customize it for their areas.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Leska A.” for the heads up.]
It’s a nice app, but I keep getting it confused with my Free Local Dating app.
Wait, didn’t the pundits predict that the iphone would be life KILLING?
Wasn’t it our good friend Paul T. who fantasized that woman being raped wouldn’t be able to dial 911 because of the screen lock?
And didn’t our equally good friend John Dv. say that teens would die while driving because they had to look at the on-screen keyboard in order to text?
I’m pretty sure those guys must be right — they said that stuff with TOTAL CONVICTION. And as far as I know, neither has said, “I was an insane idiot saying that stuff.” And they still predict stuff today!
So, no. According to the pundits, iPhone is not a life-saver. Let’s get that straight right now.
But I thought Micro$ucks wanted you to stop using your phone and get back to life?
More like North of Silicon Valley, East of Castration Vally.
Sheesh.
Fire station? Don’t you people have an ambulance service for medical emergencies?
In Noway we have 113 which calls emergency and also gives you the GPS coordinates if you run into an accident and don’t know you precise location.