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Solar Powered Chainsaw Detector
My friend developed a way to turn recycled cell phones into a real-time monitoring system to help fight against rainforest destruction and illegal logging.
see link to find out how it works:
http://rfcx.org/ks
sorry no cats...but here's my one eyed pit bull dressed as a pirate.
bktbkt
I thought it was a real gadget to warn you if Patrick Bateman is near.
nevetsx
I wonder if this would work as part of one of those gunshot detection and location systems?
TheOldNewSlowFast
Sounds like a waste of time.
krumplefly
inb4 eyepatch over working eye
tominhawaii
You should have spelled it out for us more, and used FernGully in your post. I'm not a link clicker.
nibot43
not familiar with Fern Gully. Or spelling things out.
diytechy
Actual Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/topherwhite/rainforest-connection-phones-turned-to-forest-guar
vanessal3000
"Why the fuck do you need a vest to tell you when someone is standing next to you with a chainsaw?"...then I realized it's for trees.
GauchoGordo
Yaharrharr...
LaserSteve2
What do you mean? No cats.
Guywhoisblue22
I don't think this will help change much, but the thought is there. +1
nibot43
it does help people who are protecting forest sanctuaries to know when an illegal logging operation is occurring. Currently they can't.
nevetsx
In case you have trouble spotting the guys with the truck load of logs coming out of the jungle.
nibot43
this enables people to stop the cutting as it's happening.
nevetsx
Somebody has to be there to do something about it, there isn't . This is worthless unless it triggers a drone strike on the loggers.
nibot43
that's the idea - to give it to local authorities tasked with protecting the forest - so they can intervene in the illegal logging.
nibot43
that's the idea - to provide it to local authorities so they can intervene in illegal activity.
nevetsx
Hopefully that remote rain forest has good cell phone coverage and not a police force bribed to look the other way like they do in Brazil.
nibot43
Agreed. It certainly doesn't fight corruption.