Tag: child safety
How kids use landmarks to find their way
It’s tough to develop a mental map unless you can rely on landmarks and wayfinding tools to anchor your route. Adults increasingly rely on GPS, rendering the art of manual wayfinding less common than it was a decade ago. But children in the six- to ten-year-old age group might be old enough to be entrusted […]
New device senses and protects children left in hot cars
Three undergraduate engineering students from Johns Hopkins University may have finally found a reliable solution to the problem of parents inadvertently leaving their children in hot cars. The young inventors – Anshul Mehra, Yejin Kim, and Jeffrey Kamei – tweaked technology from a Kinect motion-sensing device (normally used with the Xbox 360 game console) and […]
