Perusing the Internet, I stumbled across a story about a Canadian inventor - might call him a search and rescue dog's best friend. Seems computer science professor Alex Ferworn of Ryerson University received a Community IT Hero Award for developing a dog's-eye view device that monitors the path to a trapped victim in a crumbled building or landslide, for example.
The Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) says this is going to be a lifesaver. You can read the whole report from
CBC NEWS, Canada; it's an impressive story. The dogs will wear Canine Augmentation Technology (CAT), that sends audio and video signals back to human rescuers who cannot follow the dogs into some places. A handshake to this inventor.
I did a story years ago about our very active search and rescue association here in Illinois and Wisconsin and I promise you - you'd never be more impressed with a group of people or animals than I was with these folks. This invention feels like technology at its best.
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