Redesigned Fire Extinguisher is Shaped Like a Steering Wheel, Worn Like a Shield

After being caught in a building fire, and successfully fighting his way out using a fire extinguisher, Czech architect Premysl Kokes experienced a perspective shift. "When I now design buildings, I pay even more attention to firefighting technologies," he writes. During his harrowing experience, Kokes was able to locate a fire extinguisher in the burning building, but "they were well hidden," he writes. Kokes doesn't say it directly, but from his text I'm parsing that he believes existing...