You are walking along the street minding your own business when the jacket you are wearing detects an object hurtling towards you — and in a split-second deploys a protective airbag.
This is the future of intelligent clothing, as imagined by the engineers who are revolutionising personal protection by creating airbags which we can wear.
The industry has produced huge growth in the past 10 years in airbags for motorcyclists and horse riders and which may save their lives when they fall.
But a new wave of innovation, with faster and more powerful sensors, and stronger and more lightweight materials, is bringing airbags to the market which will protect cyclists, babies in car seats, the elderly, and even drones and phones.
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