“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.]