Condo essentials

[baldrick]

this looks like a device to have a couple of if you live in a condo

The thought of getting caught in a building fire is terrifying. Flames raging, smoke obscuring your vision and making it difficult to breathe, infrastructure crumbling, and you're trying desperately to remain calm and get out. The 5aver won't douse the flames, but the grab-and-go combination of lantern, alarm and mask is designed to help you find your way to safety in a hurry.
The 5aver is designed to be mounted on the wall and used during fire evacuations. When it's pulled off the wall, the lantern portion automatically turns on to increase visibility and the alarm activates to alert others to your location. The mask unscrews from the lantern and attaches around the nose and mouth and uses a combination of pre-filter, hopcalite filter and HEPA filter to protect from smoke, dust, carbon monoxide and other airborne particles.
Besides playing on the word "saver," according to its Korean manufacturer, GemVax & Kael Co., the "5" in its name refers to the fact that it becomes difficult for firefighters to get inside the building five minutes after a fire starts and the survival rate for those still inside drops by five to seven percent each minute after those first five. Anyone in the building obviously wants to get out before that, and the 5aver is designed to help get you do just that.
The 5aver won a "Best of the Best" Red Dot product design award earlier this year with the jury recognizing it for its highly visible, appealing and design as well as its multifunctional capabilities.
"The design vocabulary of the 5aver visualizes its purpose – in case of an emergency, everyone will know where to find it," the jury said in a statement. "It is intuitive to use and ready in a few seconds. The coloring of the 5aver is highly distinctive; the system is space-saving and compact."
The 5aver appears to be a great safety precaution for homes, offices and any buildings where the danger of getting trapped in a fire exists. It's packaged in several wall-mountable options, including two- and four-person versions.

[Gazza]

Shame it doesn't come with a miniature pick-locking set and a small pair of bolt cutters for Thai fire exits.

[The Fresh Prince]

Why do you need a couple? Like motor bike helmets, only the man of the house needs one of these!

[bsnub]

Good luck with that one mate.

[Yasojack]

lets hope the fire isn't in the room where the device is.

[Necron99]

Sounds a bit like life jackets on planes.
The light and the alarm will make it easier for them to locate your corpse.
Can you imagine if a whole building of people where carrying them?

[patsycat]

The first picture, I thought it was one of those things you chop onions with!!

[baldrick]

Can you imagine if a whole building of people where carrying them

the ability to walk through a smoke filled hall and down a fire stair would be quite handy I would imagine - until of course as gazza pointed out you found the exit door was chained and locked

[BaitongBoy]

the ability to walk through a smoke filled hall and down a fire stair would be quite handy

Yes...It's a simple idea that will save lives...Trust the Koreans to make money on this one...

[TizMe]

An office that I worked in Australia was on the 7th floor.
During fire drills I noticed that the fire stairs was always over crowded and expected it would be chaos in a real fire.
My strategy in a real evacuation was to look for Joe, a huge Maori weight lifter that was in the office and just slipstream down the stairs behind him...

[BaitongBoy]

^We need Maori Joe on every floor...Could be a franchise opportunity...

[Kurgen]

The first picture, I thought it was one of those things you chop onions with!!

A knife?