Man Trapped by Haitian Earthquake Uses iPhone to Treat His Wounds
Man Trapped by Haitian Earthquake Uses iPhone to Treat His Wounds
Posted 01/21/2010 at 1:06pm
| by Bart Salisbury
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Okay, it’s a feel-good story of how technology saves man, but why did it have to be an iPhone when any old smartphone would have done? Doesn’t Apple get enough news about how wonderful its products are without this? Still, the end result is what matters--a life was saved, and it was an iPhone that helped.
The story is simple: U.S. filmmaker Dan Woolley was injured and trapped in a collapsed building by the Haitian earthquake. Alone and in the dark, he used the light from his digital SLR to find himself a save place to hold up. Then he used the first aid app on his iPhone to tend to his wounds and treat his shock. Sixty-five hours later Woolley was saved by a French rescue team--dinged up, but alive.
Brian X. Chen of Wired’s Gadget Lab sees this as proof of the greatness of technology. We don’t need to be as smart or experienced as MacGyver, we only need to have a smartphone and access to the Internet. (Can you get access to the internet when trapped under tons of concrete?) Says Chen: “Say what you will about the iPhone. This story is incredible.”
Fine. Okay. But did it have to be an iPhone?
Image Credit: Jon Snyder/Wired.com
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stingray5001
January 21, 2010 at 6:48pm
that guy goes to the same church as me, he also had to use the picture because his glasses got knocked off and he could not see at a distance but he could look at the pic up close
ThunderBolt
January 21, 2010 at 3:35pm
I learned first aid in high school, and what to do in case of bio, chem, bio-chem, and nuclear attack, how to prepare and how to respond. Yep.
Havok
January 21, 2010 at 6:01pm
I'm fine with my "Zombie Survival Guide."
But seriously: "Aww Damn! I cut my finger off! No! How am I going to unlock my iPhone to access my 'First Aid' app! Dagnit! What do you do to stop yourself from bleeding! Common sense and saftey videos have failed me!"
CLICK.
bittertruth
January 21, 2010 at 3:14pm
It's good that a man's life is saved but it's kind of endorsement.
Credit should go to the app developer rather than phone.
So,I think whoever has created that app, saved his life.
cigar3tte
January 21, 2010 at 2:17pm
While I'm not fan of the iPhone (G1 owner), since it was an iPhone "app" that did the trick here, stop saying "Did it have to be an iPhone". The user didn't use the phone's Internet capability to look up first aid information, he used an app for the iPhone.
Meanwhile, running a search for "first aid" on the Android Market had only one relevant result, and it isn't free (is the iPhone one free?).
"Ass so fat that you can see it from the front" -- Mos Def
croman4872
January 21, 2010 at 1:51pm
Too bad he didn't have a distress beacon app too.. that probably would have gotten him rescued in a few hours instead of 67.
Caboose
January 21, 2010 at 1:23pm
*sigh* And now we wait for the "Injured and trapped, and need some first aid? There's an app for that" commercials!
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
nekollx
January 21, 2010 at 1:37pm
To be fair...how many smart phones HAVE a first aid app?
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