No Life Support: 10 Abandoned Ambulance & EMS Stations
Silence the sirens and be careful out there... these abandoned, closed and condemned ambulance & EMS stations no longer respond to medical emergencies. ...
Tag: emergency
Details & Diagrams: $1,000 IKEA Flat-Pack Refugee Shelter
Emergency shelters are designed to be short-term solutions, and many cannot withstand rain, wind and sun for more than six months. Yet the average stay in refugee camp is over twenty times that ...
One-Handed, Color-Coded First Aid Kit for Fast & Easy Use
If any design should be simple and intuitive, surely it would be an emergency medical kit - something you make lack time, treatment expertise or even a clear head to operate well in a disaster ...
Bunker City: Underground Suburb for Survivalist Community
Preparing for doomsday means going solo for some, but most see survival needs including some sort of micro-society, be it for mutual defense and cooperation or, in the most extreme cases, perhaps ...
Second Skin: Kevlar Backpack for Life & Travel in War Zones
For many of the world's citizens (and travelers), the threat of bodily harm from war or terror attacks is a daily fact of life. Constructed of bulletproof material, this backpack is designed to ...
Love Hurts: First Aid Kit to Help Survive a Broken Heart
Nothing but time can heal broken hearts, but there are some salves that can at least help bridge the gap between a breakup and happier times. That is the idea behind this half-serious ...
Flat-Pack Emergency Shelters Slot Together Like Puzzles
Times of emergency call for quick action to get victims into safe shelters. Plenty of easily-assembled emergency structures have been designed over the years, but Australian architecture firm BVN ...
Origami Shelter: Instant Flat-Pack Architecture on Demand
Take a structure, strip away all of the non-essentials, and squeeze out every last unused bit of air space, and what do you get? Something a lot like a folded sheet of paper. This folding ...
Erupting Stability: Tornado-Proof Suburb Inspired by Turtles
When a tornado comes blowing through, you can sit vulnerable in a flimsy wooden box, or you can be like a turtle, pulling its head and limbs into its impervious shell. Turtles were among the ...
From Foodies to Brides: 12 Offbeat Designer Survival Kits
When you think 'survival kit', what comes to mind is probably some kind of camouflaged, ultra-practical collection of items that live up to the name - i.e., they'll help you get by in an ...
