iPod: Music player, rescue signal

why did this just come into my RSS mail feed?

this is an old article???

WTF

The moment I read that he had a lighter, I had to wonder why he was on his second day in the backcountry. If he had been a skiier, and therefore had common sense, he would have made a signal fire, and increased his chances of being rescued the first night. Unfortunately, he was a snowboarder, and decided to sit on his ass in the cold snow, and listen to his iPod, rather than building a fire to keep him warm and signal for help. The helicopter probably saw him by mistake, just as he was changing playlists, and lighting up another doob.

My biggest surprise gift during Christmas was that very Worst Case Scenario book linked in this article. I must say that it is probably one of the most amazing books I've ever opened. Get it, if you're into that sort of thing, and even if you're not it should provide a good laugh. 5/5 stars.

Has anyone been rescued yet via one of those iPhone flashlight apps with the S.O.S. beacon? They would only have about an hour to use it though before the battery died. You would want that sucker on full brightness.

Pipe down champs794.

If you want to dump you're tuaw feed, then good for you, but why do you feel you need to tell the rest of us?

And anyway, it wasn't a mobile phone that saved him, was it? It was a lighter and an iPod.
Lighters have the capacity to light many things, including cigarettes, paper, coats, and faces. What are you trying to imply snowboarders use them to light?

Thank you tuaw for showing me a story that otherwise I wouldn't have known about! Don't let trolls like this bring you down.

This is the kind of non-story that makes me happy to dump my TUAW feed. The snowboarder was "saved by an iPod," never mind that any cell phone would have been just as useful as a light, with the bonus of being able to *call* for help, or that... y'know... that lighter could have started a signal fire.

Of course this whole disaster might have been avoided if the snowboarder wasn't listening to an iPod and carrying a lighter for... uhh... the stuff snowboarders keep lighters for.

I live in albuquerque and I saw that on the news!!

so that's what those incredibly bright screens are used for... i don't know about you, but i've NEVER used the 100% brightness setting on my ipod, 50 is enough for me, 100 is just painful to keep my eye on.

I thought for a moment you were going to say he used the lighter to torch the iPod and the rescuers saw the flames.