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'Messenger Dog' Vest Aids Disaster Victims with Video and Geotagging

Laura Boffi, a design student in Copenhagen, and her team have created a special jacket that allows rescue dogs to relay messages from survivors while tagging their location. According to DVICE and the video after the jump, the jacket plays music while the dog searches for a victim in the wake of an earthquake or other disaster. An accelerometer detects when the dog sits, and then, the victim can ...

Hummingbird Bot Could Aid Search and Rescue Operations

Robot animals are all the rage these days. From pollutant-hunting mechanical fish to animatronic replacements for mascot dogs, we seemingly can't get enough of them. Our friends over at Engadget report that researchers from Japan's Chiba University have recently built a "robotic hummingbird" that can stay aloft via blindingly fast wing movement. At a development cost of 200 million yen (about ...