The Lifesaver Case is kicking off an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign today, to fund the production of hardware that adds a unique personal safety twist to your existing iPhone. The Apple smartphone-specific case has a built-in hardware switch that contacts emergency services, and provides them with real-time location updates as well as personal information about the device’s owner.
As you can see in the video below, the Lifesaver Case transmits live GPS coordinates from the phone, as well as sends over your personal details, plus triggers recording via your iPhone’s video camera and microphone recording. When the switch is triggered (which requires both a push and slide to prevent accidental activation), it starts transmitting data and recording without displaying any indicators on the screen, making it usable without alerting any potential attacker.
I spoke with Lifesaver Case founder and CEO Jon Powell, who explained how the Lifesaver Case works: Essentially, it’s an app-enabled hardware accessory, that uses a hardwired connection to your iPhone to trigger the operation of the Lifesaver iPhone app. Powell said it was necessary to take a plugged in approach and get Apple MFI program approval to make sure that the app would run permanently in the background while the case was on.
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