World’s tiniest life-jacket - Yanko Design

The Ploota is remarkable for a lot of reasons. The Sensor Controlled Pond Safety Device sits effectually your neck, and will trigger when it comes in contact with water, only fifty-fifty comes with a manual trigger. Sitting around your neck, the Ploota is compact, innovative, reusable, and like I mentioned before, remarkable. Here's a bunch of reasons why. A. Unlike virtually life-jackets that keep you afloat all the fourth dimension, the Ploota tin can be used underwater or in the water besides. It ways you can go swimming, snorkeling or deep bounding main diving with it on and trigger it only when you lot demand to be brought to the surface. In that manner, the Ploota can be worn by more people and therefore it can save more lives. B. Probably 1/50th the size of a regular foam-based life jacket, the Ploota is compact, allowing you to carry/store 50 times more life-jackets with you in the same infinite, hence saving more lives in the event of a disaster. C. Its tiny course factor (it weighs only 280gms) allows yous to do more without being weighed downwards past a bulky chest-strapped jacket. Designed to await sleeker and honestly, cooler, the Ploota is something more people will want to wear.

The Ploota sits relatively snugly around the neck. When information technology inflates, thanks to the refillable-CO2 cartridges in the front, two bags on the side (above the shoulder) inflate immediately, bringing you lot to the surface of the water. The Ploota is reusable, as the bags can easily exist rolled dorsum into their enclosure and the CO2 cartridges replaced. Given that as many every bit 372,000 people drown every year, the Ploota's ability to be used in any and every scenario and its small size tin literally ensure MANY more lives are saved.

Designers: Rainer Fakesch, T. Storti & C. Rummel (Ploota)