SATELLITE PHONE FOR HIKERS
You’re out hiking when an earthquake strikes. You’re covered in rubble and there’s no signal on your smartphone. What to do? Take out your satellite phone. The “Zoleo Satellite Communicator,” which sells for $200, uses the Iridium network when a cellular or WiFi connection is unavailable. It’s about the size of a bar of soap– about four inches by three inches. It’s so rugged that one user said he could drop-kick it down a mountain without harming it. It weighs five ounces and has a battery life of more than eight days. There’s a button on it that lets you send an SOS to the company’s emergency monitoring and dispatch partner. Press another button to let others know you’re OK, […]
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