Buying guide
Choosing an alarm for an older relative.
The question is not which one is better, but where your relative needs covering. Those two answers barely overlap.
Advice worth carrying with you.
Guides written for the walk home, the first flat, the late train. No scare stories, no gadget worship: what actually changes how a day feels.
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Everyday safety
Walking home at night: nine habits that hold up.
Most safety advice assumes a calm, rested person. These nine habits were picked because they survive the opposite.
Buying guide
How to choose a personal alarm you will actually carry.
Six things worth checking before you buy, and the two numbers on the box that tell you the least.
How it works
How loud is 130 dB, really?
The decibel scale is not linear, which is why 130 dB is not slightly louder than 100 dB. It is roughly a thousand times the sound energy.
Everyday safety
What a self defence class actually teaches you.
A weekend course and a martial art practised for years are not the same promise. Here is what each one gives you, and how quickly.
Buying guide
A whistle, an alarm, and what each one asks of you.
Two objects that make noise, and they are not interchangeable. One runs on your breath, the other on a battery, and that single difference decides most of the rest.
Everyday safety
Street harassment: what the next ten seconds can look like.
Most advice about street harassment arrives long after the event. This one stays inside the few seconds where you actually have to decide something.
Rules and rights
What you are allowed to carry for self defence.
Pepper spray sits on a supermarket shelf in one country and counts as a prohibited weapon in the next. Here is how to read the rules.
Everyday safety
A first safety kit for moving out.
The first month somewhere new is the one where routines are set. Ten minutes of setting up now saves a lot of improvising later.
How it works
Emergency SOS on your phone: the setup, and the limits.
Ten minutes of setup almost nobody does, followed by an honest list of what the feature still will not do for you.
Everyday safety
Running alone after dark, without giving up the run.
Winter takes the daylight, not the training plan. What changes once the run moves into the dark.
Privacy
Sharing your live location without giving it all away.
Location sharing is one of the most useful safety tools available, and one of the easiest to let sprawl. Here is where the line sits.
Reading helps.
Carrying helps more.
One pull sets off a 130 dB alarm, calls for help and shares where you are. From €44,90, tracked shipping.
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Petit mais Puissant. Alarme discrète et super Efficace. Je rentre souvent chez moi tard le soir et je me sens maintenant un peu rassuré. En cas de problème ça sonne super fort, ça clignote, et surtout ça alerte directement mes proches. Idéal pour faire fuir les vilaines gens ! Je recommande.Reviews published on Trustpilot and reproduced without edits. We show the most recent 5-star reviews, ten at most. Read every review on Trustpilot