With this 'mobile airbag' you can save your smartphone
With this 'mobile airbag' you can save your smartphone Mobile phones have totally shunned the concept of the boring form factor, one thing that has not been tackled well even after so many years is how much the smartphones are prone to accidental drops. The touchscreen phones take a moment to bring all the investment down to zero, more so to negative if you get a replacement (for example iPhones). Well, it seems that we have a solution to this menace after these many years. An engineering student from Germany has invented a new device that looks like a "mobile airbag" that inflates during the drops. The "mobile airbag", formally called the AD (active damping) phone case, protects the phone display from shattering when you drop the phone, by ejecting springs from all the four sides that act as an airbag. The thought struck Philip Frenzel, a 25-year-old engineering student at Aalen University in Germany when he broke his smartphone by hurling his...