Smartphone Airbags?

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Amazon VP Greg Hart have recently applied for a patent on “a system and method for protecting devices from impact damage.”

The ideas are all still in the beginning stages, but the pair are starting with the development of a safety monitoring system. The system would have to have some sort of radar or sensors that are able to detect in a matter of seconds if the device is at immediate risk of impact damage.

As seen in the image above, one idea being thrown around is to embed one or more small airbags into the back of the phone. When the safety monitoring system is triggered, the airbags will inflate to keep your device safe from its shattering demise.  Read more here .

At least the airbag is for the phone and not the humans carrying them.  That would have made it complicated, I’m sure.