This 'mobile airbag' will save your phone from breaking and will make your life better

This 'mobile airbag' will save your phone from breaking and will make your life better



Mobile Airbag
In the lives of most of us, smartphones have acquired a great deal of importance. It has for sure cancelled out the boring factor for many. While its importance remains crucial, the problem that was still not tackled after so many years is how much the smartphones are prone to accidental falls.
Yes, we are all scared of that drop that would bring down our investment on the phones to zero, in some cases even negative if you get it fixed after the fall. But it seems that someone was working on this problem for quite sometime and has come up with a solution, too.
An engineering student from Germany has invented a new device that looks like a 'mobile airbag' that inflates during the drops.

ORIGIN OF THE IDEA:

  • The thought struck Philip Frenzel, a 25-year-old engineering student at Aalen University in Germany when he broke his smartphone by hurling his jacket on the bannister
  • The fall was so impactful that the internals of the smartphone dropped out and scattered. It was then that he embarked on a research voyage to find a solution to this issue
  • Frenzel then started working on equipment that would save the phones from damage after an accidental drop
  • After four years of fiddling with the equipment, he came up with the phone case that houses sensors that can detect when the phone is falling.

MORE ABOUT THE MOBILE AIRBAG

  • According to Financial Express, 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
  • There are dampers on all the four sides of the case that are foiled in an airbag-like position that absorbs the impact of the drop
  • You can use the dampers again, much like the airbags, by pushing them into the case after the deployment

IS IT ONLY GOOD FOR FLAT SURFACES?

Frenzel has also won the top award from the German Society for Mechatronics for his phone case, even though the design is still a prototype.
He has also patented the technology, meaning the case could be readily available to consumers in the near future.
The case appears to work perfectly on flat surfaces, but there is no indication that results would be as solid if the phone is dropped on a jagged or uneven edge.
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