Nasa heartbeat detector saves four men in Nepal

Posted on 8 May 2015 by Tim Brown
The Finder prototype being tested at the Virginia Task Force 1 Training Facility in Lorton, Virginia, Image courtesy of Nasa.

A new device designed to detect the heartbeats has been used to rescue four men trapped under rubble following the recent earthquake in Nepal.

The search-and-rescue tool was developed in partnership by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The device called Finder (Finding Individuals for Disaster and Emergency Response) uses microwave-radar technology to detect heartbeats of victims trapped underneath wreckage or rubble. Following the April 25 earthquake in Nepal, two…

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