New York pans skyscraper escape pods
`The idea emerged after Jonathan “Yoni” Shimshoni and a team of aspiring inventors in Israel watched a television documentary about victims trapped on the upper floors of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Shimshoni recalled seeing the towers ablaze and thinking, “This is nuts. This shouldn’t have to happen.”
The team came up with a $1 million escape device with expandable cabins that could be lowered like lifeboats outside a high-rise in distress.’
