iPhones are AWESOME…until the phone falls out of your hand, the camera breaks, the screen shatters and the buttons stop working. This might just fix all that.
For the people that are super careful with their phones or super careless with their phones, Apple’s new breakthrough could benefit everyone! Wait for it…iPhones will flip in the air and fall like a cat!
AND Siri will also purr for you mid-drop. (Alright, maybe not, but we’ll stick to the first one.)
Now for the inconvenient truth, Apple has just patented the invention, it doesn’t mean that the feature will be 100% available in future iPhones. Besides, if Apple uses this product, phone life will increase and Apple’s income on replacing old phones will decrease. But anyways, HOW does it even work?! Complex combinations of gyroscopes, accelerometers (inertial measurement unit) measuring angle and axis shifts, and a GPS feature will detect the falling phone. Then with the use of on-board motors, it will reorient the phone in mid-air.
In addition, the patent apparently provides a few other ways to protect the phone, including air-foil wings and air canisters Basically lowering the phone as if it were wearing a jet pack.
THIS is the future?!
BLAKE&WYLDE