Jeff Bezos Wants To Put an Airbag In Your iPhone

[wraggster]

Don't want to pay Apple $199 (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2493750?start=0&tstart=0) to repair the cracked screen of the $199 iPhone you dropped? Neither, apparently, does Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. A patent application (http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220110194230%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20110194230&RS=DN/20110194230) made public Thursday lists Bezos as an inventor of 'a system and method for protecting devices from impact damage,' which proposes using airbags, springs, and even a jet propulsion system (http://www.geekwire.com/2011/jeff-bezos-put-airbag-smartphone) to keep your iPhones, iPads, and other portable devices safe and out of the clutches of the Genius Bar. Let's hope there's an API — those gas cartridges could be a game-changer for fart apps (http://www.tuaw.com/2009/02/10/31-fart-apps-in-90-seconds/)!"

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/08/12/1937233/Jeff-Bezos-Wants-To-Put-an-Airbag-In-Your-iPhone