Airbags for Everything

Earlier this month, Amazon won approval for a patent that would deploy an airbag system for smartphones. Many vehicle airbag systems rely on accelerometers to deploy the airbag.  These accelerometers are the same type of accelerometers built into smartphones and an increasing array of devices and used for things like screen rotation.  It is conceivable that eventually a wide array of device will have airbag-like protection mechanisms

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