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It looks like a typical smartwatch, but the Safer Pro by Leaf Wearables could potentially save women's lives.
看上去像很平常的智能手表，Leaf Wearables公司生产的手表“Safer Pro”可能会挽救女性的生命。
There is this red button which you press and it sends a SMS and it sends a, you know Internet notification to all your loved ones.
表上有一个红色按钮，按下之后会发送短信，你的爱人会通过互联网接收你的消息。
Founder Manik Mehta says think of it as a digital lifeline.
创造者曼尼克·梅塔称要把它想成数码生命线。
Pressing and holding the red button will alert five designated contacts that the wearer is in danger.
按住红色按钮后，五位指定联系人将知晓你身处险境。
The idea was to build a device and make everyone know that there is a problem happening at that point of time.
我们的想法就是让别人知道我们出现了状况。
The ease of pressing a button for help instead of fumbling for a phone is critical.
相比于寻找手机，轻松按下按钮求救至关重要。
The Safer Pro also records audio.
Safer Pro还可以记录声音。
This audio is being transmitted to all your five emergency contacts
声音将传给所有五位紧急联系人，
so that they can come and reach you in time, and it's also being recorded for evidence purpose.
他们会及时救助你，这些音频也是证据。
In areas you know, countries where there is so much corruption, it would really be a lifesaver for women.
在一些腐败频发的国家，它可以救女性一命。
The Safer Pro is not the only tech safety device on the market,
Safer Pro不是市面上唯一一个安全保证装置，
but it recently clinched the top prize in the Women's Safety XPRIZE competition for its low-tech features.
但最近它获得了“女性安全”大奖的头奖，因为它的技术含量很低。
Back home and back in all the other Asian countries, we realized that the whole system is still running on 2G sometimes,
在国内以及其它亚洲国家，我们发现整个系统依然是2G网络，
3G at a good place, so if the whole system is based on 2G,
好一点是3G，所以如果整个系统还是2G的话，
you need to make sure that the device can run on 2G. It's as simple as that.
所以要确保设备能够在2G网络运行，就这么简单。
And at a price tag under 40 dollars, developers hope the Safer Pro technology will make a potential attacker think twice.
它的价格不到40美元，开发者希望Safer Pro技术可以让袭击者三思而行。
Once it's so publicly out, available, you know it's slowly gonna change his mindset because there is gonna be an immediate reaction,
该产品一旦走向市场，袭击者的心态将慢慢发生变化，因为他的行动将马上引来反应，
you know she is gonna get immediate help. He is gonna have a consequence.
她将马上得到帮助，他就会受到影响。
Whether lifeline or deterrence, Mehta says he's focused on trying to make the world safer.
不管是用来救命还是震慑，梅塔称他关注的是让世界更加安全。
If we can make 80% of the women safe that's still a start, right?
如果我们能保证80的女性安全，那就是一个开始不是吗？
It's not 100% but it's, rather than sitting at home and cursing the whole world, it's a start.
虽然不是百分百，但总比在家咒骂这个世界强，这是一个开始。
Tina Trinh, VOA news New York.
蒂娜·特林，VOA新闻，纽约报道。
