How Smartphones Help Find Avalanche Victims (IMAGE)

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How Smartphones Help Find Avalanche Victims

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An extra piece of hardware coupled with the LawinenFon app transforms any smartphone into an avalanche transceiver. This photo shows the Galileo-LawinenFon prototype.

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