How High-Speed Internet Saved a Man’s Life in Haiti
Take a look at this moving and impressive story from Haiti on an American film producer who was trapped in the rubble of the Haiti earthquake but used his iPhone’s Internet connection to help him stay alive:
“An NBC affiliate in Miami, Florida has a report about an American film producer, Dan Woolley, who was trapped in the ruins of a hotel in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti during last week’s earthquake. Woolley used the light from his digital camera to examine his broken foot and head wound. He then used a medical application on his iPhone to look up how to dress his wounds, which included a broken foot and a head wound, according to the report. Woolley said that during the 65 hours that he spent in the ruined hotel’s elevator shaft, he also looked up symptoms for shock using his iPhone medical app.”
You can watch a video interview with Woolley here.
internet in the rubble?
The story doesn't actually say the man used a wireless internet connection on his iPhone, just an app (which as everyone knows is a program that resides in the device and does not necessarily use the internet. The medical info seems to have been downloaded to the device already, probably when he was at home and over his WiFi landline connection!). If he had a wireless connection you'd think he would have first called for help and then called his wife and kids (or at least sent an email) instead of struggling to write down his last words in a bloody notebook! Did anyone at BFA actually watch the clip?
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