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Air-sofa that inflates in about 90 seconds with a smartphone announced
Cloudfunding Makuake announced an inflatable Nylon Fabric Air Sofa –AirThrone for Outdoor Camping and Beach. The Air sofa inflates in about 90 seconds with a smartphone. Air sofa comes with a powerful small electric pump, which uses very less power to inflate the Air sofa. When a smartphone or mobile battery is connected, the pump…
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Dainese D-Air Thorax motorcycle airbag for added protection on two wheels
Where would one possibly stuff an airbag in a bike? Well, on the rider, where else? That’s what the amazing Dainese D-Air Thorax motorcycle airbag is all about. The company has thoroughly worked up the testing phases of the airbag and are ready to unleash it as a shield against motorbike fatalities. It is an…
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Volvo unveils revolutionary external airbags to keep pedestrians safe
Volvo has been known to have a healthy obsession with road safety and has been building extremely safe and sturdy vehicles since quite a while now. The Swedish manufacturer has now come up with a technology that’ll not only keep the driver inside safe, but also pedestrians! Using airbags that quickly pop out of a…
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Keeping phones from falling to their doom, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos designs airbags for phones
Cars have airbags, and we expected them to stay in there forever. Little did we expect a pair of creative designers to come up with a concept like this! Airbags for phones? Well, the idea sure as hell seems pretty intelligent, keeping phones from suffering strokes from impacts, every time your fingers decide to give…
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New Seat Belt, Airbag Integrated in New Toyota Lexus
Takata Corp has launched a revolutionary new seat belt that inflates like an airbag at the time of a car crash into the market, for passenger cars for the first time in the world. “Air Belt,” will be equipped in almost all Toyota Motor Corp’s “Lexus LFA” sports car and release under the name of…
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Swedish Bicycle Helmet is Airbag Protection for Your Head and Hairstyle
As one who loves cycling and is worried about safety, but also my hairdo, I have been waiting for a design like this for ages. Designers Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin spent six years deliberating over the cycle helmet-hairdo problem, and have come up with the following – Hövding – which looks somewhat like an…
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AmSafe Airbag Offers Elitist Safety For Business Class Passengers
Nothing like a bit of elitism, is there? B/E Aerospace, the world’s leading manufacturer of interior cabin products for commercial and business jets, has announced its plans to offer AmSafe Seatbelt Airbag for business passengers. Can’t afford expensive class? Then you may be in trouble. Tests showed that the airbag will minimize passenger injury in…
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NASA designs and test helicopter airbags, don’t worry no crash test dummies were injured during testing
NASA believes that if cars can have it so can choppers. We’re talking about Air bags, just in case you were wondering. At their Langley Research Center in Virginia, NASA’s engineers have devised a test center for coming up ways to better protect passengers who could be victims of helicopter (or other small flying vehicle)…
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Airbags for helicopters, thanks to NASA
We may soon see those helicopter pilots exhaling in relief as they get this news come to them with a fair share of relief. Folks at NASA are working on helicopter airbags that will minimize the problem of crashes constant crashes with pilots having no way out. If you’re wondering why helicopter pilots don’t jump…
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Toyota to soon launch new models with worlds first rear-seat centre airbag system
Ever since the first seat belt was developed automobile manufactures have been pursuing the ultimate in safety features. If it wasn’t for these safety features like seatbelt air bags and the sorts, who knows how many more lives could have been lost. Toyota has gone one step ahead in developing the worlds first rear-seat centre…
