A wireless data-gathering grenade to toss into danger. After an earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, search-and-rescue teams descended upon Port-au-Prince to look for survivors. Francisco Aguilar, a graduate student in public policy at the time, was shocked to read stories about crews relying on complex, expensive imaging systems. "Only a few teams had them, and you had to be really well trained to use them," Aguilar says. He soon launched a start-up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to develop a sim...
A wireless data-gathering grenade to toss into danger. After an earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, search-and-rescue teams descended upon Port-au-Prince to look for survivors. Francisco Aguilar, a graduate student in public policy at the time, was shocked to read stories about crews relying on complex, expensive imaging systems. "Only a few teams had them, and you had to be really well trained to use them," Aguilar says. He soon launched a start-up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to develop a sim...
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