Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

A couple interesting products I found today. Actually I need to distinguish between practical and interesting.

In the interesting category is The Wall Of Life. This thing has Hollywood written all over it. An instant chem/bio shelter that normally looks like part of the wall but in a crisis can be transformed into a self-contained environment to protect a user from airborne threats. I cant imagine they sell many of these but its definitely some clever engineering on someone’s part.

I am, however, more taken with this gadget: Breath Of Life Emergency Escape Mask.  Smoke hoods have been around for a number of years and if I worked in an office building or similar environ I’d bloody well have a couple of these in my desk (along with rappelling gear and a couple hundred feet of rope).  Nowadays I have a stack of these lovelies sitting in the bunker, but for compact and convenient ‘just in case’ carry these things would be awful nice. Just the ticket for getting out of a smokey subway tunnel, office building or similar deathtrap.

I do like the TacPac pocket emergency kits, though.  If I were stuck working or commuting in big city that was ripe for some sort of terrorist action I’d have a couple of these and the smoke hood in my bag at all times.

One final product from these same people is this fireproof poncho. (The “[noun] of life” naming convention apparently didnt extend to this thing.) Kinda reminds me of the Dorest Service emergency fire shelters (”shake n bakes”) that are issued to firefighters here. Im not sure how much I would trust something like that but I suppose it beats being trapped behind a wall of flame and heat.