A tempting prospect that would put paid to smashed screens the world over, there's been a whole lot of chatter surrounding a patent filed by Apple that involves automatically-deploying bumpers to prevent phone-meets-ground melodrama. Will it make it into the iPhone 7? Well, Apple is no stranger to patents the vast majority of which never (or, at least, have yet to) make it into production models. From 3D screens to transparent displays, there's plenty for the web to get excited about, but no guarantee anything will actually appear. Still, this one isn't so left-field as to defy logic or possibility and would make the iPhone something of a rugged smartphone, without the hefty rubber casings associated with happy-to-be-dropped devices. The airbag approach might be less realistic the idea being that a proximity sensor would deploy an air-filled cushion to prevent a wallet-emptying collision with the concrete but the notion of small pins pushing out of your phone to put valuable airspace between it and the tiles could just work. Will it happen? On this one, it's a wait and see.
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