A weighted plunger inside the device (the most practical method mentioned) would take up half the phone if it had enough weight to seriously shift the device orientation in mid flight. The other suggestions (growing wings, etc.) are just silly for the time being. It reminds me of all that transforming suit crap in the Iron Man movies. None of that is possible in the real world. At all. It's just CGI.
Mass is only one part of the momentum equation.
This is totally possible, although you're right that it would take up significant space (but not half according to the patent drawings). Good thing components keep getting smaller.
The Americans design a phone with GPS, accelerometers, gyroscopes and motors to position the device for minimum damage on impact.
The Koreans just make the phone out of rubber.
Rubber, yeah Check out those rubber-bordered phones Nokia makes for the low-end segment in India. Those phones are practically unbreakable in a fall, or even if you throw them.
jonshf do you really need to be reminded that air friction is a negligible effect with falling bodies that are solids like a phone or a rock? Galileo proved that over 500 years ago dropping rocks off the tower at Pisa. The force of impact will change, but not the acceleration by gravity which remains constant. All this device will do is estimate the rate of rotation and attempt to make the phone land on its side rather than it's face. To work it would need some estimate of how high up in the air the phone is located. I assume an estimate will work for most cases. So don't try and drop your phone off a building to see what will happen unless you have insurance.
You are both right and wrong. Air resistance is negligible over a short fall. But for long falls the object will reach what is called a terminal velocity. Where the force of air resistance is equal to the force of gravity.
Even a bullet has a terminal velocity which is much slower than the rate at which it was fired. By your argument, the bullet would accelerate forever (wrong). I am not sure if you have ever studied drag but the drag force is not linear. Basically, the faster you go, your drag increases much faster. So if the drag force is a pound for 10 ft/s. it may be 2.8 for 20ft/s. Make sense?
However, for a fall of 10 feet, it can be ignored. Maybe I am getting technical but if you are going to call someone out, you will have to be specific.
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Gee, if Apple we ever to create a device that reverses itself in free fall, that would be cool. Instead of hitting the ground, it would snap back up like a yoyo without a string. That would be inovation.
Attach a string to the phone, it would do the same thing. Wait.....create a way to do it without the string. Snap back like a YOYO. That would be cool. maybe if they started working on that now, the stock price would jump. After all, They are Apple and all is possible righty?
How about a patent to make Apple fanboys less absent minded so they won't drop their phones to begin with? Either that or a patent to coat their fingers with glue.
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Coolest innovation in gadgets for years IMO. This is so Apple. Jobs would be proud.
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I don't see how.
A weighted plunger inside the device (the most practical method mentioned) would take up half the phone if it had enough weight to seriously shift the device orientation in mid flight. The other suggestions (growing wings, etc.) are just silly for the time being. It reminds me of all that transforming suit crap in the Iron Man movies. None of that is possible in the real world. At all. It's just CGI.
Mass is only one part of the momentum equation.
This is totally possible, although you're right that it would take up significant space (but not half according to the patent drawings). Good thing components keep getting smaller.
Originally Posted by Tim Shundo
People who bring up liquidmetal in these threads remind me of 9/11 conspiracy theorists mentioning thermite.
Why, do you not believe it exists?
Acceleration is not speed squared, you are confused.
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For a device of this size, that's so negligible as to be pointless to measure.
Not if you drop it from an airplane!
Unless the airplane is on the ground. Then yeah, you're right.
The Americans design a phone with GPS, accelerometers, gyroscopes and motors to position the device for minimum damage on impact.
The Koreans just make the phone out of rubber.
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Originally Posted by v5v
The Americans design a phone with GPS, accelerometers, gyroscopes and motors to position the device for minimum damage on impact.
The Koreans just make the phone out of rubber.
Rubber, yeah
Originally Posted by bleh1234
If other manufacturers have a mil spec 810 phones, why not apple?
Because they'd rather make things that look good and save the crap design for third-party cases.
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Originally Posted by Macnewsjunkie
jonshf do you really need to be reminded that air friction is a negligible effect with falling bodies that are solids like a phone or a rock? Galileo proved that over 500 years ago dropping rocks off the tower at Pisa. The force of impact will change, but not the acceleration by gravity which remains constant. All this device will do is estimate the rate of rotation and attempt to make the phone land on its side rather than it's face. To work it would need some estimate of how high up in the air the phone is located. I assume an estimate will work for most cases. So don't try and drop your phone off a building to see what will happen unless you have insurance.
You are both right and wrong. Air resistance is negligible over a short fall. But for long falls the object will reach what is called a terminal velocity. Where the force of air resistance is equal to the force of gravity.
Even a bullet has a terminal velocity which is much slower than the rate at which it was fired. By your argument, the bullet would accelerate forever (wrong). I am not sure if you have ever studied drag but the drag force is not linear. Basically, the faster you go, your drag increases much faster. So if the drag force is a pound for 10 ft/s. it may be 2.8 for 20ft/s. Make sense?
However, for a fall of 10 feet, it can be ignored. Maybe I am getting technical but if you are going to call someone out, you will have to be specific.
Just make it as light as a feather and it will drift slowly to the ground when dropped.
Attach a string to the phone, it would do the same thing. Wait.....create a way to do it without the string. Snap back like a YOYO. That would be cool. maybe if they started working on that now, the stock price would jump. After all, They are Apple and all is possible righty?
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Originally Posted by broadbean
Isn't it a tad early for April Fool's?
Why are there so many posts after this one?
How about a patent to make Apple fanboys less absent minded so they won't drop their phones to begin with? Either that or a patent to coat their fingers with glue.