Career
In 1937 he created a portable radio signaling system for his employer Master in Surgery&South, which he called a "packset", but which later became known as the "Walkie-Talkie". While Hings was filing a United States. patent for the packset in Spokane, Washington in 1939, Canada declared war on Germany. Master in Surgery&South sent Hings to Ottawa to redevelop his new invention for military use, and he worked there from 1940 to 1945.
Following the war, he moved to Burnaby, British Columbia, where he established an electronics R&Doctorate company, Electronic Labs of Canada.
He continued researching and creating in the fields of communications and geophysics until his retirement. He held more than 55 patents in Canada and the United States, and was the inventor of the klystron magnetometer survey system.
In 2006, Hings was inducted into the Telecommunications Hall of Fame. He died on Capitol Hill, Burnaby British Columbia in 2004.