Laptop lifeline for wounded US troops (BBC)

[Benbow]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4994920.stm
http://tcoverride.blogspot.com/

Captain Chuck Ziegenfuss should never have been on foot crossing a bridge in Iraq on 21 June 2005, he reckons.

He was an armour officer, commanding 14 tanks plus armoured Humvees, and, as he put it: "An armour officer doesn't walk."

But he was walking that day, so when a buried 82mm mortar exploded three feet in front of him, it blew open his left arm, shattered his thumbs, peppered his legs and right arm with shrapnel, and ruptured one of his testicles.

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Terrible as his injuries were, his story might not have been unusual but for one thing. He had been keeping a weblog, an online diary, for several months before he was wounded.

You can do something to help people like Chuck. See also web site for Valour-IT (Voice-Activated Laptops for Our Injured Troops).

http://soldiersangels.org/valour/howitworks.html