Apple Patents Method to Make iPhones Fall Like a Cat

Apple ca n’t stop dreaming up with way of life to keep its glass screens from cracking . The a la mode attempt comes in the form of a somewhat bombastic letters patent whichwas just approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office . essentially , it would make your iPhone fall like a cat .

cat are famous fortheir righting reflex response , an innate power for the creature to orient itself mid - flight of stairs so that it land on its feet and does n’t hurt itself . Apple ’s Modern letters patent applies this exact same idea to its fragile and expensive electronics , namely roving one like iPhone and iPad .

Using input from a combining of gyroscopes , accelerometers , and GPS , a gadget equipped with this new “ protective mechanism ” will recognise when it ’s in costless fall and calculate metric like speed of descent and sentence to impact . The gadget would then use an onboard motor to reorientate itself to protect fragile constituent like the screen or the camera when it hits the ground . The gimmick ’s on - table vibration motor could be employed , so it would even screech a little snatch as it feel towards Earth , just like a true cat .

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The patent itself is rather elaborate , and Apple provides a few more method acting for reposition the equipment midair . They include cover air enhancer or deploying gas canisters for hold in landings . This sounds kind of insane until you realize that Jeff Bezos and friendspatented a smartphone airbag system over three long time ago .

So it ’s worth regard that there ’s a bit of an arms slipstream over these magic iPhone - save techniques . It ’s also worth cite that often companies file patent of invention not because they actually want to work up the machine but because they want to protect their intellectual property , so the fortune you ’ll actually see this become a reality are svelte . Either way , who would n’t want a more African tea - like iPhone ? [ USPTOviaAppleInsider ]

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