In Haiti, an American documentary filmmaker, who was nearly crushed to death after the catastrophic 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck, wouldn’t have survived the ordeal if it wasn’t for his trusty iphone. Badly injured and rapidly loosing blood, the man used the light from his iphone camera to illuminate the rubble in search of a safe place to hold up until help came for him. He found refuge in an elevator shaft and then used an iphone app to learn a crash course in first aid. He was able to make several makeshift bandages and tourniquets to stop the profuse bleeding from the head and leg wounds. He also set the alarm on his phone to go off every half hour, because the app warned of the dangers of falling asleep while in shock from severe trauma. 65 hours later the man was rescued and is expected to make a full recovery.
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Wow. Just..wow.
I’m never leaving home without my phone again. o__o;
…wow. good thing i bring my phone everywhere i go!
That. Is. Amazing.
Reminds me of a comic I once read [from Cyanide & Happiness] where a guy’s ribcage had been ripped out by a bear, then another guy came along and said “Dont worry, I have an iPhone!” So he whips it out, points it the other guys chest, and it becomes fully healed. He then promptly flys away.
I guess I’m gonna die then: no iPhone. >.<
This will make my dad love his iphone even more
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we depend more and more on technology as each day goes by
ummm last time i got in an accident…… i hit a tree going 40 i looked for my phone and it was jacked. that guy is lucky his phone survived. i had to wake up people nearby at 5:30 in the morning. bleeding profusely from my knee. lucky bastard…..
That had to be one badass iPhone battery to survive that long O_o
really and i just told my brothers phones like that cant save your life
lets jus pray to the Nintendo Gods that Apple doesnt hear about this: “Trapped in a life or death situation? … There’s an App for that!”
xDDDD