Imagine these scenarios: you’ve been in a car accident and knocked unconscious, you've been carjacked with your small child still in the car, or you receive a phone call that a friend has been hurt and the police can’t reach anyone else and they need information. With EmergencyLink on your BlackBerry, you have it all covered.

EmergencyLink is an application that helps you, your family and friends access important information during a crisis. This free application keeps your personal information secure while having it readily available when needed. EmergencyLink allows you store all your important medical and personal information right on your device so it’s there when you need it most. With a 24 hour response center, EmergencyLink is always there. You can easily setup your free account online and it will sync with your BlackBerry or vice versa.

How the service works:

• Organize and store all your important information on the website or your Blackberry
• Members are issued ID cards as well as a screen saver (you do not have to enable it) for their device that informs emergency and medical personnel to call EmergencyLink in an emergency
• EmergencyLink will provide emergency personnel with all the important medical information needed and will call your emergency contacts to inform them of the situation

Other Features:

• EmergencyLink allows you to securely share their information among family and friends via their website or the BlackBerry application
• Take pictures of important documents (Driver’s License, Insurance Cards) and store them on EmergencyLink
• Two-way sync between the EmergencyLink website and your BlackBerry device
• BlackBerry users of EmergencyLink have the added option of a screensaver to inform first responders that they are an EmergencyLink member

As a mother of three, one of which is of legal driving age, I constantly worry when they are out of my site. With all our information on EmergencyLink and shared between those who matter most, I no longer have to worry as much. If my mom has my children and there is an accident, she has access to their medical information at the click of a button. This is a great application that is easy to setup and provides peace of mind that those who need the information in an emergency, have it at their disposal.

For more information / download EmergencyLink

EDIT: For those concerned about cost and the selling of their information, the website states "We will not sell or rent your information to third-parties, for any purpose. In the future we hope to present you with “offers” from insurance, financial and other companies that we believe you may benefit from. The offers will be completely optional and you will have no have no obligation to participate. These companies will pay EmergencyLink to present these offers to you and we will present them to you in the form of a monthly email from EmergencyLink. You will have the opportunity to opt out from such offer emails and it is through these emails that we are able to offer you EmergencyLink as a FREE service."

Its long been an issue of concern for deep underground workers but has never really had an answer. How to communicate underground when cell phones and walkie talkies no longer work? Well, turns out that question has been solved by a Los Alamos, New Mexico 16 yr old partaking in the 2009 International Science Fair, which he ended up winning.

Alex Kendrick, has managed to create a system that transmits data using low-frequency radio waves that can penetrate rock more easily than that of high-frequency transmissions. The utilization of this method could mean many things to cave rescue workers and scientists abound. A life saving tool, a method of communicating research studies and much more lay ahead for this system to which Alex has been praised for creating. Impressive if you ask me. What were you doing in highschool? I know I wasn't thinking of this kind of stuff. Congrats, Alex.

[ Engadget / NPR ]