Guardian Angel: Save Women From an Uncomfortable Situation
Many women can relate to the scene in Sex And The City when Charlotte receives an emergency call from Carrie to escape a bad date.
And now a nifty gadget has been invented so women everywhere can pick up their mobile and say 'Something bad happened?!' without needing to call their friend first.
Whether it's a dodgy suitor or a more dangerous threat, the Guardian Angel is designed as the perfect escape route for women in an uncomfortable situation.
The personal safety accessory line may resemble an elegant silver necklace or bracelet, but it fosters technology which helps the wearer combat harassment and alert their contacts when they are in distress.
Dubbed the Guardian Angel after its halo-like design, the device features a special button that can be pressed when the wearer is in a precarious situation.
When activated, a call is made to the wearer's own mobile phone, allowing her to have an excuse to walk away from the harasser in a shared space such as an office or a bar.
Available worldwide, it is suitable for workplaces, social settings or even more potentially threatening situations.
If the wearer is particularity worried about their safety, they can hold the button for three seconds to send an SOS text message to a designated number, such as parents or a friend, to notify them of danger.
The text message even provides coordinates and a Google Map link to her exact location.
Fusing technology with style, the Guardian Angel is the brainchild of advertising agency JWT Singapore, in partnership with Singapore-based advocacy organisation Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE).
AWARE works to promote gender equality, including through providing counselling and services to women.
'AWARE believes in the rights of women to participate in social and public spaces free from harassment and violence,' executive director Corinna Lim told Marketing Interactive.
'But especially in a workplace or social scenario, there can be social penalties for confronting harassers directly.
'The Guardian Angel can help to defuse some harassment situations. The emergency contact function also empowers women to more easily seek help in cases of serious threat.'
Although the Guardian Angel was designed in Singapore, it can be used anywhere in the world and does not require the recipient or wearer to download anything nor have a smartphone.
The Guardian Angel is sold online by Singaporean retailer My Room Retail at the-guardianangel.com and 10 per cent of each sale of the Guardian Angel will go to AWARE.
5 Crazy dating apps
Did you see the short film Sight, made by a team of visual arts students, that examined what dating would be like if it were an eyeball-implanted app? The apps below don't go that far, exactly, but we might be closer than we think to a future in which dating resembles Minority Report more closely than When Harry Met Sally. Not to freak you out or anything.
Bad Date Rescue App by eHarmony
If you've already sensed that you might be going on a bad date, you might have had the foresight to ask a friend to call you in the middle of dinner and provide a previously agreed upon excuse to get you out of there, pronto. (Remember that Sex and the City episode when Charlotte had Carrie call her to tell her "something bad happened?") If you didn't, well, you're on your own, lady.
But wait! Now you can download eHarmony's Bad Date Rescue App. Choose a scenario â€" your mom calling to say your sister is having a baby, your super telling you the apartment has sprung a leak, or, our personal favorite, "Your boss, who just found out everything in the office isn't working and needs your help NOW!" (gah, don't you hate it when "everything in the office" is broken?) â€" and the app will call you at a pre-scheduled time. (Or do a one-touch "quick rescue" starting in three seconds, one minute or five minutes.) The phone call looks almost exactly how a regular call on your smartphone would, and there's a real (pre-recorded) voice at the other end, so only you know it's a ruse â€" depending on how gracefully you exit, of course.
If your acting skills aren't perfectly polished, you can choose the "Repeat After Me" script and simply say what the voice tells you to.
Should you use it?: Hey, why not? Suddenly receiving an emergency phone call in the middle of a bad date sounds fake already, so getting it from a robot won't be that much of a stretch.
Price: Free
sources：[http://en.twwtn.com/Bignews/66283.html]
And now a nifty gadget has been invented so women everywhere can pick up their mobile and say 'Something bad happened?!' without needing to call their friend first.
Whether it's a dodgy suitor or a more dangerous threat, the Guardian Angel is designed as the perfect escape route for women in an uncomfortable situation.
The personal safety accessory line may resemble an elegant silver necklace or bracelet, but it fosters technology which helps the wearer combat harassment and alert their contacts when they are in distress.
Dubbed the Guardian Angel after its halo-like design, the device features a special button that can be pressed when the wearer is in a precarious situation.
When activated, a call is made to the wearer's own mobile phone, allowing her to have an excuse to walk away from the harasser in a shared space such as an office or a bar.
Available worldwide, it is suitable for workplaces, social settings or even more potentially threatening situations.
If the wearer is particularity worried about their safety, they can hold the button for three seconds to send an SOS text message to a designated number, such as parents or a friend, to notify them of danger.
The text message even provides coordinates and a Google Map link to her exact location.
Fusing technology with style, the Guardian Angel is the brainchild of advertising agency JWT Singapore, in partnership with Singapore-based advocacy organisation Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE).
AWARE works to promote gender equality, including through providing counselling and services to women.
'AWARE believes in the rights of women to participate in social and public spaces free from harassment and violence,' executive director Corinna Lim told Marketing Interactive.
'But especially in a workplace or social scenario, there can be social penalties for confronting harassers directly.
'The Guardian Angel can help to defuse some harassment situations. The emergency contact function also empowers women to more easily seek help in cases of serious threat.'
Although the Guardian Angel was designed in Singapore, it can be used anywhere in the world and does not require the recipient or wearer to download anything nor have a smartphone.
The Guardian Angel is sold online by Singaporean retailer My Room Retail at the-guardianangel.com and 10 per cent of each sale of the Guardian Angel will go to AWARE.
5 Crazy dating apps
Did you see the short film Sight, made by a team of visual arts students, that examined what dating would be like if it were an eyeball-implanted app? The apps below don't go that far, exactly, but we might be closer than we think to a future in which dating resembles Minority Report more closely than When Harry Met Sally. Not to freak you out or anything.
Bad Date Rescue App by eHarmony
If you've already sensed that you might be going on a bad date, you might have had the foresight to ask a friend to call you in the middle of dinner and provide a previously agreed upon excuse to get you out of there, pronto. (Remember that Sex and the City episode when Charlotte had Carrie call her to tell her "something bad happened?") If you didn't, well, you're on your own, lady.
But wait! Now you can download eHarmony's Bad Date Rescue App. Choose a scenario â€" your mom calling to say your sister is having a baby, your super telling you the apartment has sprung a leak, or, our personal favorite, "Your boss, who just found out everything in the office isn't working and needs your help NOW!" (gah, don't you hate it when "everything in the office" is broken?) â€" and the app will call you at a pre-scheduled time. (Or do a one-touch "quick rescue" starting in three seconds, one minute or five minutes.) The phone call looks almost exactly how a regular call on your smartphone would, and there's a real (pre-recorded) voice at the other end, so only you know it's a ruse â€" depending on how gracefully you exit, of course.
If your acting skills aren't perfectly polished, you can choose the "Repeat After Me" script and simply say what the voice tells you to.
Should you use it?: Hey, why not? Suddenly receiving an emergency phone call in the middle of a bad date sounds fake already, so getting it from a robot won't be that much of a stretch.
Price: Free
sources：[http://en.twwtn.com/Bignews/66283.html]
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