This Aussie Safety App Makes It Less Terrifying To Walk Alone If Yr Feeling Vulnerable

CLIENT: WANDERSAFE
OUTLET: PEDESTRIAN.TV

Australian app WanderSafe has just teamed up with fellow safety app What3Words to further revolutionise the way we travel in potentially dangerous situations.

WanderSafe, which was developed by Aussie Stephenie Rodriguez, is an app that is designed to help women (and other people) feel safer when travelling alone or being in unfamiliar areas. The app works by sending alerts and pinpoint locations to elected loved ones if you feel unsafe or in danger, effectively making people feel less vulnerable when walking alone.

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Aussie Safety App Teams Up With Global Giant

CLIENT: WANDERSAFE
OUTLET: 10 DAILY

Australian app WanderSafe has potentially saved hundreds of lives by sending alert warnings to loved ones when a person feels unsafe, and now it's teamed up with a global giant in a bid to help more people.

WanderSafe is the creation of Australian Stephenie Rodriguez, who was inspired by her own travels to develop her own app to help people feel more secure in an unfamiliar place or in a dangerous decision.

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Personal safety app WanderSafe teams up What3words

CLIENT: WANDERSAFE
OUTLET: NEWS.COM.AU

A revolutionary app that is saving lives with just three words is teaming up with an Australian company to create a “formidable” personal safety system.

What3words, which can pinpoint a person’s exact location to three square metres anywhere on the planet with a simple three-word code, is integrating its technology with WanderSafe, an app and “SOS” beacon designed to help vulnerable people avoid and escape dangerous situations.

“I attended a safety briefing in Canberra for women with disabilities two weeks ago and there was a woman at the end of the presentation who said to me, ‘You’ve saved three of my friends’ lives,’” said WanderSafe founder Stephenie Rodriguez. “I burst into tears.”

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Put Down The Hand Sanitiser: Here's How To Wash Your Hands Instead

CLIENT: DR ZAC TURNER
OUTLET: 10 DAILY

Hand sanitiser is considered the Holy Grail of portable hygiene, but new research has found it may not be as effective as people think.

Simply slapping on hand sanitiser is not going to kill the germs on your hand, according to GP, Dr Zac Turner.

"The way that hand sanitiser actually kills off the germs is that it evaporates, and it is the evaporation that kills a lot of the germs," he told 10 daily.

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