What about natural disasters? certainly these sorts of technologies would be useful in Katrina, tsunami, Haiti-type situations, no? Maybe the sort of things t

What about natural disasters? certainly these sorts of technologies would be useful in Katrina, tsunami, Haiti-type situations, no? Maybe the sort of things that could just be air-dropped over a wide area. Ideally, you'd want the components to be redundant and sufficiently cheap as to be disposable.