Facial Recognition to protect schools from unwanted people

Here is one way that technology is making people safer, though I am skeptical that it wil help stop mass public shooters.

Technology saving lives: Toddler makes FaceTime call to save mother

I will take ABC at its word that the boy saved his mother's life, though I am a little dubious that the mother was going to die from the wound that she suffered.  In any case, the boy's actions did help his mother who was fainting from the blood loss.

iPhone saves man's life in New Zealand who was trapped under bike during freezing night

Apparently, the ability of the iPhone to give the exact coordinates for where this man was stranded allowed the helicopter to arrive fast enough to save the man's life.  From Stuff.co.nz:

A 20-year-old worker was found trapped under his 4WD, which had rolled on him, Feilding police Sergeant David Burmeister said.
''He'd been out there all night stuck underneath it.''
Weather conditions last night were ''terrible'' - wet and cold - with the temperature in single figures.
The man was found down a gully and the police constable on the scene was able to use his new iPhone to give the Palmerston North Rescue Helicopter the co-ordinates of where to land, Burmeister said. . . .

Pedestrian directions taking into account dangerous areas

Microsoft's "avoid ghetto" patten seems like one of those obvious ideas once someone thinks about it. CNET's discussion is available here.

Technology for emergencies

This story available here about Siri was quite interesting.