Photo of wearable airbags inflating
around 80-year-old Mrs. Lander.
No bones broken!*For $1400, you too can ensure that should your 94-year-old grandmother take a tumble, she'll do so with the comfortable reassurance that violently inflating airbags wrapped around her neck and hips will fire off and give her a bounce where there otherwise would have been a thud.
The airbags apparently operate on balance sensors of some sort, so that when old people start to tilt floorwards, the system will go off.
Hopefully, the thing is rechargeable. Otherwise, you'll be out $1400 every time granny forgets to put the safety on before leaning back in her recliner and getting her dentures shot across the room from the occipital impact.
Hat tip Andy.
* The photo is actually of the Mars Lander airbags from 8 years ago, not 80-year-old Mrs. Lander's airbags. But close enough for this story.
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