Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Category: Personal

Stop arterial bleeding in 30secs – no torniquet needed!

Interesting post on Wired, 10 things you need in a survival pack I was already aware of most of them.

However, totally new on me is Celox – this is from their website “CELOX™ granules are the first in a new generation of emergency
hemostatic agents. They are simple to use and highly effective. CELOX
granules quickly control even the most severe arterial bleeding. Just
pour it in, pack it, and apply pressure. No specific training is
required.” it can stop even arterial bleeding in 30 seconds and is available in 2gram pouches.

Seems pretty amazing stuff especially since it can be applied singlehanded by yourself with no training. Unfortunately their website says its not available in Europe, yet. I’m going to try and get some from Red Flare Kits in the USA, a 15gram pack seems to be under £10.

Geoff and his Tweet Cloud

Yet another twitter add on – tweetcloud. This one scans all your tweets and generates a word cloud (like a tag cloud), that is the size of the word is the frequency that the word has appeared in my tweets.

Currently the favourites are:- new, blog, post.

Pretty amazing all the little applications being built around twitter.

Return of the Isle of Ely

Discovered the Google Maps mania post, in Scobles Google reader shared items, on the effects of sea level rises around the world.

Here is the map for around Cambridge with the Ely returning to its Island status with only a 2 metre rise in sea levels.
Here in Cambridge it would need a 12m rise. It would no longer mean a 70mile trip to Hunstanton to go to the seaside 🙂