A New App That Lets Users’ Friends ‘Virtually Walk Them Home At Night’ Is Exploding In Popularity
Tens of thousands of people around the world are now using a free personal-safety mobile app that allows friends to virtually walk you home at night.
The Companion app, created by five students from the University of Michigan, enables users to request a friend or family member to keep them company virtually and track their journey home via GPS on an online map.
Although they can do so, the friend or family member does not need to have installed the Companion app. The user can send out several requests to different phone contacts in case people are not available to be a companion or not with their phones at the time.
Those contacted then receive an SMS text message with a hyperlink in it that sends them to a web page with an interactive map showing the user walking to their destination. If the user strays off their path, falls, is pushed, starts running, or has their headphones yanked out of their phone, the app detects these changes in movement and asks the user if they’re OK.
If the user is fine, they press a button on the app to confirm within 15 seconds. If they do not press the button, or a real emergency is occurring, the Companion app transforms the user’s phone into a personal alarm system that projects loud noises to scare criminals from the scene, and gives you the option to instantly call the police.
If I were going to describe the perfect contraceptive, it would go something like this: no babies, no latex, no daily pill to remember, no hormones to interfere with mood or sex drive, no negative health effects whatsoever, and 100 percent effectiveness. The funny thing is, something like that currently exists.
The procedure called RISUG in India (reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance) takes about 15 minutes with a doctor, is effective after about three days, and lasts for 10 or more years…
Oh, and when you do decide you want those babies, it only takes one other injection of water and baking soda to flush out the gel, and within two to three months, you’ve got all your healthy sperm again.
The trouble is, most people don’t even know this exists. And if men only need one super-cheap shot every 10 years or more, that’s not something that gets big pharmaceutical companies all fired up, because they’ll make zero money on it (even if it might have the side benefit of, you know, destroying HIV).
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can this replace the normal contraception methods we have pls
This has existed for YEARS. They ran an article about it in WIRED magizine but I don’t think anyone read it .-.
Maybe more reblogs then? Up to a million at least. We have this technology to get the word out and change the world.
Also, I realized that the company was the same one from that post going around with the picture of a truck with the regular logo and then a smaller, pink, “Princess Packers” truck. Apparently the “Princess Packers” are college aged women who come and pack up your house for you and the company donates $1 for every box they pack towards the Cinderella Fund (which enables them to continue moving those escaping domestic violence for free)
I seriously wish this would have existed when I was thrown out by my abusive husband last year. Share to save a life.
a helpful pain scale for people who have difficulty with doing body inventory or quantifying pain
0-10 Scale of Pain Severity
10 - Unable to Move I am in bed and can’t move due to my pain. I need someone to take me to the emergency room to get help for my pain.
9 - Severe My pain is all that I can think about. I can barely talk or move because of the pain.
8 - Intense My pain is so severe that it is hard to think of anything else. Talking and listening are difficult.
7 - Unmanageable I am in pain all the time. It keeps me from doing most activities.
6 - Distressing I think about my pain all of the time. I give up many activities because of my pain.
5 - Distracting I think about my pain most of the time. I cannot do some of the activities I need to do each day because of the pain.
4 - Moderate I am constantly aware of my pain but I can continue most activities.
3 - Uncomfortable My pain bothers me but I can ignore it most of the time.
2 - Mild I have a low level of pain. I am aware of my pain only when I pay attention to it.
1 - Minimal My pain is hardly noticeable.
0 - No Pain I have no pain.
Hey this is super useful, the scale of frowny faces on the doctor’s wall really does nothing to help me evaluate pain. When my hands were really bad I knew the pain was there all the time and often impacting my ability to sleep or do things but I wasn’t sure how to translate that to numbers. Looking at this chart I think I under-ranked the pain level.
With same-sex couples, either person has 24 hours to send a message.
Whitney Wolfe, co-founder and former employee of Tinder, is the founder and CEO of Bumble. She says the rule isn’t just to give women more power, but to also keep the space safe for them.
“We want to encourage kindness and online accountability. If you send a [rude] photo, you are watermarked. If you send something hurtful, you will forever be stamped. We want people to treat others with respect.”
I don’t throw the term genius around loosely, but..
I had a friend who had a wallet made from a Stayfree extra long wrapper and she took it travelling in Asia and a guy picked her pocket and he dropped it and screamed when he thought he had a pad in his hand.
That is the most beautiful story I’ve ever heard
Reblogging for the most GENIUS wallet-theft-prevention idea that I am astounded to have never seen until now, On a post about a good idea to smuggle alcohol and avoid price-jacks.
I think it’s hilarious when people are talking about height differences in ships and they think it’s all sunshine and rainbows, but as a friend and I were just discussing: I am tiny (at only about 5'2") while my husband is tall (6'3") and built like a house. I know what it’s like to be in a relationship like this, so please consider:
*The tiny one trying to reach something on the top shelf and the big one coming by to scoop them up and lift them with one hand so they can reach it.
*The big one has a bigger vehicle so they can stretch their legs out and the tiny one has to run and hop into it
*The big one can’t get their shoulders through a doorway and gets stuck like twice while the tiny one just slips through and laughs at them
*(my husband does this to me every so often) the tiny one caught in an uncomfortable conversation so the tall one just comes over and picks them up, puts them on their hip like a toddler, and carries them away.
*The tiny one is the scary one
*The big one is a big softie and a nerd and he just loves the tiny sarcastic one to bits
*The tiny one let’s the big one rest on them every now and then but careful don’t smoosh them
*The big one carrying the tiny one away from an argument over their shoulder
*The tiny one will fucking fight you don’t fuck with their massive teddy bear don’t get stabbed hoe
