The unseen side of gadgets

So far, we’ve presented you the funniest, most useless gadgets we could find, even the incredibly stupid. But gadgets and innovations do more than look good, impress our friends, or simply make us spend lots of money just to have them, and not do anything.

Some innovations that we’ve come to know over the past years have proven themselves to be not only useful, but life-saving. I’m talking here about innovations such as the seatbelt, which have saved countless lives in the past fifty years. But gadgets and gizmos also play an important part in this equation. The first that come to mind are also from the automotive industry, and you probabily know them by looking at different vehicle brochures. They are, among others, ABS, ESP, Airbags, and so on.

What I’m about to talk about next is a small gadget that happened to fall my way, that I didn’t know it existed. Not even on paper. First of all, I have to mention that it’s not available, and not even useful for most people, but it can be life-saving for people that work in certain areas of industry.

The small gizmo is called a “Personal Gas Monitor”, and it specializes in finding H2S (I don’t know how that’s pronounced, but I’m going to go with Sulphonic Hydrogen) in the air. H2S is a toxic, lethal gas, and simply by wearing it (it has a small metalic clip with which you can attach it to your belt), it’s capable of finding even the smallest quantities of the gas, allerting you by sound, vibrations and a small light show.

Here are a few of the photos I took of it: (click to enlarge)

As you can see, the gadget is small, easy to carry. You’ll have to trust me that it makes one loud sound, which cannot pass undetected.

As you can see, gadgets nowadays aren’t only excentric items, they can also be used for more noble purposes.

By the way, soon I’ll present an expanded version of this, along with demonstrations. ‘Til then, we’ll keep in touch.

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Posted in Gadgets by Andrei Maguleanu