Camera phones can save you when lost

We always thought camera phones were completely unnecessary. We never thought, though, that it would one day save someone’s life. In Australia yesterday, three hikers were saved because of their camera phone. They were lost in a Victorian national park, and the pictures they took were “instrumental in rescuers finding the trio.”

Apparently, search teams were looking in the wrong area, and were correctly directed with the cell phone features. Without this, authorities say that it could have taken days to find them. Instead, they were found in just half of one.