May 26, 2005

Cellphone display used to track down lost hiker

A lost hiker in Shiloh Park, California was rescued thanks to her wireless phone. After the hiker lost her bearings, she called the sheriff's dispatcher from her wireless phone asking for help. When the rescue helicopter approached her after dark, they asked her to point her wireless phone's lighted face toward the sky. The crew was able to locate her and her wireless phone using night vision goggles.

via CTIA Daily News via TheWirelessWeblog

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