Photo and video could be very helpful in police calls. In medical calls saying "He broke is arm" is a lot faster than taking and sending a picture.

911 from a landline will get you a visit from the police. In this state 911 cell hangups are not always responded too.

You could have a built in emergency app with very few mandatory fields, just mostly nature (domestic, person with chest pain, etc) and specific address. The government could even mandate an app like that in all phones that sends a formatted SMS, just like they mandated all phones have GPS.

Does she have a cell phone that is capable of TTY? TTY is integrated into the current 911 system (at least in this state). I do agree with you that this is a good use of SMS based 911, but a simple built in app that sent a formatted SMS could be mandated in all phone just like GPS was. The mandatory fields would only…

There is. To dispatch we really only need a specific address and a couple words on what is going on. The mandatory fields I am suggesting could be those, plus a request for other services. For example, minimum acceptable information could be Domestic, 123 Main St, with injuries. Fast, lets me know who i have to send…

In a city the area that the GPS is accurate to would be an even bigger concern. The accuracy is not up to the level that it will be off by a house or two, but often you get the wrong street or even 2 streets away. For certain calls that my be fine, like a noise complaint or an out door domestic. For any call indoors…

I work as a dispatcher and think this is not the best idea. People calling 911 for true emergencies are often tough to get good information from, such as the address they are at. Wireless phase 2 mandates that all phones have gps, and I'm sure that information will be transmitted, but that only gives an area they…

The research goes all the way to the top.

I've used it, and the "wine" it makes is drinkable but nothing like a nice real wine. It is sparkling and fun to drink, my grandmother loved it. I would buy this over the "Artful Winemaker" in the article. It is less than 1/10th the cost and sounds very similar (open bottle of juice, pour yeast in, put airlock on…

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I was just in Slovakia. We had 2 adapters and 1 converter that let us plug our things in there. Note that most devices now (specifically most electronic's included wall wart) can use either 110 or 240 converting the power is not an issue. Struggling to find places to charge things or places to buy more adapters I had…

Many of those could also be struck pedestrians! That would count as a single car accident but the person who caused it would nearly always be the one that survived.

I am typing this right now from the Samsung Chromebook. I bought it the first day that a few were released on gilt.com for my wife. We had seen it announced on Google I/O and like the idea. I think it was a good purchase and should be given more of a chance than it is. Sure it is a bit limited as with some plugins…

The controls on this app are near impossible.

-World of Goo - probably the best looking game I have seen to date on Android. Add this to your nexus.

All the stupid notifications are driving me nuts! Also, the app list should only show app that I have installed! I don't need a list of very app I ever downloaded. Most of the free app are terrible too and many are artificially priced so they can be the free app of the day even through they are free on the Android…

I have the diNovo Edge and like the keyboard. I use it with the PS3 and my laptop when I have it hooked to the TV with HDMI. I don't need any extra dongles for either device. I also just tried it with my phone (EVO 3D) and it had no problem pairing and it worked (though the screen is way to small for needing a full…

I have this knife, and like it. It is small enough to keep on my key chain, has a real bottle opener that easily works while still attached to the keys, and easily disconnects and makes a useful knife with a handle. It is called "Mantis Knives BK2B Bottleneck Tanto Blade Knife." I have tried several knife/ bottle…

DOSbox is great! I played with this a while back and it IS available on several platforms! I used it on Android and a quick Google search shows that it is available for iOS as well.

It is a real threat, but those one click methods are pretty safe. Wait a week, then it should be fine. Just start with a full battery and follow the instructions exactly. There are two types of bricked phones / tablets, soft bricked and hard bricked. Soft bricked can be recovered and hard can't. As far as I have…