Apple Patents Anti-Falling Phone Tech

[Mumm Ra]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/12/...ing-phone-tech

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Apple US the rights to patent 8,903,519, which covers a "Protective mechanism for an electronic device."
The patent itself is for a device that relies on sensors to monitor device positioning. In short, if you drop your iPhone, the phone will defy gravity and hit the floor in the safest possible way, protecting the screen and important internal components.
"An electronic device including a processor, a sensor in communication with the processor and a protective mechanism," reads the patent document. "The protective mechanism is in communication with the processor and is configured to selectively alter a center of mass of the electronic device. Additionally, the electronic device also includes an enclosure configured to at least partially enclose the processor and the sensor."
The device works by performing rapid calculations to quickly reposition the i-device in mid-air/free-fall. The example the patent gives is to use a device's motor functionality to adjust "rotational velocity" in the hopes of preserving fragile components.
Depending on how many times the owner drops their device, the protective mechanism may start to remember how it was dropped previously to help with future calculations. Furthermore, if you own several Apple devices, they'll communicate with one another – meaning if you drop your iPhone a lot, your iPad will be aware of that and will mimic the iPhone's trajectory should the iPad ever be dropped.

that's deep

[Mumm Ra]

they should just make a phone case with this technology:

http://www.hovding.com/how_hovding_works/

any way a phone lands on hard ground has a good chance of cracking

or combine the apple anti-fall tech with a very soft case