Help save lives with your iPhone

How would you like to use your iPhone to help save lives and, at the same time, stand to win an iPhone accessory too?

First Aid Corp Singapore is organising a competition to photograph automated external defibrillators (AEDs) around Singapore. AEDs are devices that are used to revive hearts in the case of a heart attack.

In the contest, you will get one point for every photograph you submit of a known AED location and three points for every previously unknown AED location. The aim of the contest is to record the locations of as many AEDs in Singapore as possible. These will then be entered into an iPhone app to help users locate AEDs in an emergency.

Says Dr Dana Elliott Srither, the president of First Aid Corp (Singapore): "We want to harness the community's love of their iPhones to save lives. The information provided by them will be given back to society in our free iPhone app AED Nearby, so that cardiac arrest victims will have a greater chance of survival."

The top prize will win an iPhone accessory. Dr Elliott is coy about what it is, but says that it will help iPhone users use their phones for longer. "We have received lots of feedback that iPhone users have to charge their iPhone batteries almost everyday. The prize for the top volunteer will help to solve this problem."

To take part, download the app The Extraordinaries and search for "First Aid Corps" within the app. You then need to follow First Aid Corps to get access to its missions.

To qualify for the prize, you will need to register your name in the app.

Note: An easy way to get points is to start with known locations of AEDs. To find them, download the app AED Nearby. For more information on the contest, check out the First Aid Corp website here.