Posted on 09/23/2010 10:18:38 AM PDT by llevrok
Caught in a disaster? You'd better hope you're wearing the Emergency Bra. Simply unsnap the bright red bra, separate the cups, and slip it over your head -- one cup for you, and one for your friend.
"The goal of any emergency respiratory device is to achieve tight fixation and full coverage. Luckily, the wonderful design of the bra is already in the shape of a face mask and so with the addition of a few design features, the Emergency Bra enhances the efficiency of minimizing contaminated bypass air flow," explains the eBra website.
It sounds silly, but Bodnar, a Ukraine native who now lives in Chicago, started her medical career studying the effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. If people had had cheap, readily available gas masks in the first hours after the disaster, she said, they may have avoided breathing in Iodine-131, which causes radiation sickness.
The bra-turned-gas masks could have also been useful during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and for women caught outside during the dust storms that recently enveloped Sydney, she said.
"You have to be prepared all the time, at any place, at any moment, and practically every woman wears a bra," she said. Her patented devices also look pretty, no different from a conventional bra, she added.
According to a report on tech news site CNET, there are plans for a "counterpart device for men" in the works, though the precise shape it will take has yet to be revealed.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
“Honey! Come quick. I’m having trouble breathing ... I swear!”
SnakeDoc
Sure, but it makes you look like a real boob
It was pretty obvious there was a very serious emergency in the place 'cause most of the gals were in full emergency mode!!!
It was pretty obvious there was a very serious emergency in the place 'cause most of the gals were in full emergency mode!!!
“According to a report on tech news site CNET, there are plans for a “counterpart device for men” in the works, though the precise shape it will take has yet to be revealed.”
That would be the Bro, or is it the Manzziere?
Boxers or briefs?
And for guys... the emergency jock strap...
Depends.
“In Case of Emergency, Please Remove Your Bra”
I for one “support” this policy. Even in non-emergency situations.
CNet had a better headline for this story
“Emergency Bra, Unsnap, seperate cups,inhale”
[And for guys... the emergency jock strap... ]
ewwwww, just ewwwww
Pamela Sue Anderson could cover a coal mine’s day crew. But someone like Hillary Clinton couldn’t take care of the canary. Not that any self-respecting canary would want to survive if THAT was the only way ...
Funny, I’d always heard that, if you cut a bra in half, you had two yarmulkes with chinstraps.
Is there no end to the added usefulness of these wunder-garments?
NAPL!
Brilliant!
Cool. Can’t wait for the next chemical attack.
(Don’t worry, we can absorb it).
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