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iPhone Used to Help Rescue Toddler Stuck in a Well
- Posted on April 3, 2012 at 5:32pm by
Liz Klimas
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The rescue of a toddler who had fallen into a narrow well in Mengzi City, China, was aided by an unexpected high-tech gadget: an iPhone.
The Telegraph reports the child in the 40-foot deep well kept slipping out of the adult-size harness as the team worked to pull him up. Enter the iPhone.
The rescuers recorded video using the phone to better position the harness and retrieve the boy.
Sending the iPhone into the well.
Reviewing footage of the toddler's location in the well in the iPhone video.
Scared by safely in his parents' arms.
Here’s the footage:
According to reports, the boy was not seriously injured.
[H/T Gizmodo]
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DERRYMAN
Posted on April 9, 2012 at 5:23amA good result. Thet would have done the same if it was a girl.
Report Post »kabenninger
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 3:10pmWell, this is just a perfect example of American technology saving lives – unfortunately obama wants to take away our creativity and the dollars to realize our creations.
Report Post »Where would this child be but at the bottom of the hole if American‘s hadn’t had our freedom to invent such a product.
Remember that this coming election day.
Secret Squirrel
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 7:56pm.
Report Post »In the “good old days”, we’d send in Lassie.
“Lassie, Timmys’ in the well.”
Now, we use an i-phone.
I miss the good old days.
Secret Squirrel
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 7:54pm.
Report Post »“There’s an app for that!”
dontbotherme
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:21pmOH thank God this little guy was saved! Poor baby! God bless him & the rescuers!
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 10:05amI wonder what would have happened if it had been a girl. Just wonderin……..
Report Post »sick6james
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 4:41pmAbout 1500kg of concrete.
Report Post »anticomm
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 9:02amIts wonderful the boy was rescued. I think this gives more insight into communist system in China,as they obviously deem the boy child more valuable to their insect society than the girl child who was run over multiple times with hardly a glance and left to die in the street.
Report Post »Just sayin!!!!!!
nelbert
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 8:38amLassie has been replaced by an iPhone!
Report Post »Jennifer_D
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 7:08amRe: The Telegraph reports the child in the 40-foot deep well kept slipping out of the adult-size harness as the team worked to pull him up. Enter the iPhone.
The rescuers recorded video using the phone to better position the harness and retrieve the boy.
Now this is a good use of technology! I am so glad that this little boy was rescued and is physically ok. I can’t imagine how scared he must have been.I hope he is recovering from the trauma and doing well.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 8:11amChinese ingenuity – use an adult size harness on a little kid and wonder “duhhhh, George, the kid keeps falling out” The simple solution would seem to have been a smaller harness….
Report Post »grannyrecipe
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 5:15amI think what they should have done is lowered a dog down by tying a rope onto its hind legs and when the dog got to the boy yell “fetch” so the dog would grab hold of the boys shirt and then they could lift them both out.
Report Post »kabenninger
Posted on April 7, 2012 at 3:08pmOh, I’m laughing – that’s American ingenuity.
Report Post »AKDuclos
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 2:55amWow. I know I’m going to catch hell for this but…..
who cares.
We’ve got a country (where my children live) that is heading straight down the tubes. Why would I give a rats ass what happens in China at this point…….. sheep, sheepdogs and wolves.
God you people are shallow.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on April 4, 2012 at 12:23pmAkd: You have a shallow heart. I feel sorry for you.
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