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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has for a patent for airbags for mobile phones. We are all with airbag technology in cars. We could soon see them as optional add-ons when we buy a new mobile or phone. Bezos said many people broke their phones or lost important because they dropped them. He added that many insurance companies do not out on claims for dropped mobiles. He believes his invention will millions of people from the headache caused by a mobile phone hitting the . He said the tiny airbags the phones would offer maximum protection for a cell phone if someone it. The airbags would deploy after the phone’s built-in accelerometer detected that it was .

The patent submitted by Mr Bezos contains other features. He suggests using a laser or radar to work out the distance the phone and the ground as the phone is falling to determine when to deploy the air bags. Other suggestions springs that would be released from the phone so that the phone bounced when it hit the ground. The part of Bezos’ patent application is a gyroscope that tiny jets of compressed air that would change the of the device in mid-air. This would be able to change the phone’s “flight ” to ensure a smoother landing on impact. The Amazon boss must now to see if his patent is accepted and if smart phone companies adopt his .

 

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