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Lucas: Speed is everything.

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Victims don't last very long
when they're in a rubble pile.

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As the victims have time go by,

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they are less likely to survive
because of injuries

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or just simple entombment from dehydration,
things like that.

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Price: Searching for people
buried in the rubble
and collapsed buildings

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has pretty much stayed the same
for the last 30 years.

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We worked in the past with NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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and they came to us and they told us
they developed this technology

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that would use microwave radar
to detect human heartbeats.

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Lux: FINDER is a radar that
sends a low power microwave
signal through the rubble.

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It looks for the very tiny reflections

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caused by the motion of the victim's
breathing and heartbeat.

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FINDER can detect human
heartbeats and breathing
through 30 feet of debris

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or 20 feet of solid concrete,

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even if the victim's unconscious
or unable to call out for help.

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Working with the first
responders has been the
best part of doing FINDER.

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We have learned so much from working with

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an actual team like
your Virginia Task Force One.

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Bittinger: When they started initial testing
with this device,

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we were able to supply them with a location,

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make it as realistic as possible,

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test the equipment,

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find out some of the things that we would
like to see change.

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At our suggestions they were
able to integrate this into a lightweight,

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waterproof container that was to military spec

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that we could actually wear on our back,

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because everything we take,
we carry with us.

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Price: We're also looking to have systems

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you could actually put on the back of a vehicle,

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because we're looking to be able
to put one on a quad copter

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and fly it over the top of the pile

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and actually scan down,
which is much more efficient.

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Garulay: Target markets for this product would be
certainly for search and rescue

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in avalanches, earthquakes, tsunamis,
tornadoes, hurricanes,

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any natural disaster
and any type of FEMA-like agency

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would certainly need a device like this.

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Lewis: It's northwest of Katmandu,
called Chautara.

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And in Chautara it was decimated.

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There's a number of buildings collapsed

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and there were international
rescue teams there.

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In Nepal, FINDER was used to augment
the search and rescue team.

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They have a number of tools in their tool belt.

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Some are K9 dogs,
some are acoustic measuring systems.

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Some are actual camera systems
that they put down in a hole.

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And FINDER was used as a way
to confirm other findings.

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Four people were rescued
directly by FINDER.