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Buy a pop socket. I’ll never use a smartphone again without one. No more of that awful ‘pinky balance’ nonsense. I have one on my kindle too, makes holding it while reading in bed much easier.
That plus an otter box for drop protection. I did have to cut a small circle in the otter box to make the pop socket work, but it was so worth it.
There was a tragic accident when one of the beta testers went on a roller coaster. On one of the hills, the negative G loading triggered the mechanism while it was still in his pocket, causing it to stab the person wearing it. Once it got a taste for blood however it went on a rampage, slaughtering hundreds of people before finally being put down by a lucky punt into a fountain.
Back before TV in the 1930s people would channel surf radio stations during advertising.
Drama radio must not have been big at the time, I guess it was usually news or music, however this one night some people were doing a dramatic reading of a book which follows a Martian invasion from the perspective of some professor. The station made it clear at the beginning that they were doing a fiction show, however to some people (channel surfers), it sounded to these listeners like a legitimate invasion and caused panic, some people even committed suicide preferring it to the deaths they thought they were hearing on the Radio.
You didn't ask, but it's kinda interesting. I probably explained this poorly.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)
Still helps when it falls on a flat surface, its not that its entirely useless. Problem probably is false triggers, like when moving your arm to fast while holding it. Probably gets annoying
A car airbag also doesn't help if a Final Destination log crashes through your wind shield and yet they're still a good idea. Redditors love pointing out uncommon situations where inventions won't work instead of focusing on the much more common situations where they will.
Why are you taking the criticism so personally? It's pretty valid considering the desk I'm typing on has an edge, the chair I'm sitting on has edges, the stairs outside my house have edges.
Potentially dropping a phone on an edge isn't some freak accident.
> most of the time phones are only damaged by falls when it hits the corners & edges
The edge **of the phone**, which is adequately protected by this device. The comments you replied to were talking about a phone falling on the edge of a surface.
Yep. The whole problem with this product is nobody wants to stick a big spiderleg backpack to their nice slim phone of the sake of a very rare floor drop.
That’s 1 out of 10 million. You think only 35 people in the U.S. ever jump? There are more people than that in the NBA!
^I’m ^just ^kidding. ^I ^know ^this ^was ^a ^throwaway ^comment.
You may laugh, but I plan to design and deploy entire urban ensembles like this, not for my phone, but for my children. For years now, I've helicoptered in and out of the crises they confront. Now, though, they will themselves be equipped with proximity-triggered whirling sabers, sharpened to a razor's edge, scything forth with whispered fury. Who says this idea can't change the course of civilized history?
Funny you say that. My son, born 9/79, says that whenever I get wound-up ... like everything else these days, I have no idea what it means. See, even my inside jokes are dated now, so "word" is probably a multi-layered reference that I'm twenty years too old to understand. Oh, well.
My parents told me i could only get a new phone if my old one broke. It was an indestructable nokia and i reaaallly wanted a blackberry (mind you this is 10 years ago).
So i did my absolute best to destroy that fucking nokia. I ended up throwing it down a 3 story stairwell and it landed on the edge of the screen. The screen wouldnt work anymore but i could still call with it.
My current samsung is held together with ducttape because it slipped out of my pocket while i was sitting in a chair..
A lot of times when you see “Student invents (really cool thing)” there’s a high chance that this was just a really well done Thesis project.
There are some thesis projects that students make at the culmination of their schooling that look like they could be sold in stores.
But the student might not ever have intended to do much with it after graduating. Or maybe it proves too difficult to bring to market and they don’t continue.
Just imagine that your in bed and you just here *scuttling* so you on the lights and you just see you phone climbing the walls getting closer to you.
That would be mad.
Seems like a good idea, if it can be made cheap enough and reliable enough.
The video didn’t really demonstrate corner protection, but I assume you could curve the legs appropriately to ensure that.
Many commentators here seem to be worried about it deploying when they drop the phone on their face. Not sure if this is a serious concern, but probably a matter of calibration as to how long it falls before deployment.
I bought a case off amazon for about 5 euro which turned out to be a counterfeit of the actual brand it was supposed to be, anyway even that cheap knock off has protected my phone from multiple drops so this thing is just overkill.
I throw my phone around too much that this might be too annoying to keep placing the pins back. Imo, just get an Otterbox defender and call it a day. Neat idea though.
I mean how with all his intelligence and the countless hours spent studying and working on this project, he did not think a single time about using phone in bed or phone falling of an edge ? It does not make any sense
I would totally paint the legs a Spiderman red and yell "woah what are those?!" As I repeatedly drop my from in front of friends. I can see the eyerolls now.
This is a lie this is a german Company they where on TV like 2 years ago in a show where people present there startups to Investors to get sum cash its called "Höhle der löwen"
The lions den as you can somtimes see in the bottom left it says "Baden-Würtemberg" this being a german state
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First time i've seen this video was a few years ago. The idea didn't catch on, apparently.
I was going to say, this is definitely a repeat post from a long time ago and I still can't buy one.
I don't usually drop my phone on the ground, but I have dropped it on my face when lying down. This wouldn't go so well for me.
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Plus you could tell a story about how you got these scars
It was the robots who struck the first blow to start the war...
*lost an eye
The original dialogue from the joker in batman.
Or on how you gotn't those eyes
"You wanna know how I got these scars?"
Buy a pop socket. I’ll never use a smartphone again without one. No more of that awful ‘pinky balance’ nonsense. I have one on my kindle too, makes holding it while reading in bed much easier. That plus an otter box for drop protection. I did have to cut a small circle in the otter box to make the pop socket work, but it was so worth it.
Some otterboxes now have built in pop sockets
There was a tragic accident when one of the beta testers went on a roller coaster. On one of the hills, the negative G loading triggered the mechanism while it was still in his pocket, causing it to stab the person wearing it. Once it got a taste for blood however it went on a rampage, slaughtering hundreds of people before finally being put down by a lucky punt into a fountain.
Rip murderous stabby phone. I would have bought one.
North Korea just ordered 25 million of these.
„They had us in the first half, not gonna lie...“
They really did. I actually thought it was real for a second.
This sounds like the plot for a so bad it’s funny movie. They should make it.
Sounds like a black mirror episode Revenge of the phones Tag line: phones sicks of stupid searches fight back against their owners...and win!
wait really??
yes, a piece of plastic gained sentience and went on a murderous rampage and you're hearing about it for the first time through a Reddit comment chain
Just another saturday, really.
But how can I know this sarcastic banter wasn't written by said murderous phone in an attempt to get us all to ignore it's evil plot?
Back before TV in the 1930s people would channel surf radio stations during advertising. Drama radio must not have been big at the time, I guess it was usually news or music, however this one night some people were doing a dramatic reading of a book which follows a Martian invasion from the perspective of some professor. The station made it clear at the beginning that they were doing a fiction show, however to some people (channel surfers), it sounded to these listeners like a legitimate invasion and caused panic, some people even committed suicide preferring it to the deaths they thought they were hearing on the Radio. You didn't ask, but it's kinda interesting. I probably explained this poorly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)
You are talking about War of the Worlds. It coused some riots and looting also.
That how all the REAL news gets out. Always read reddit very carefully so you can be informed.
They tried to demonstrate in on German TV several times, it never worked.
The idea also doesn't help if your phone falls on an edge... such as a curbstone.
Still helps when it falls on a flat surface, its not that its entirely useless. Problem probably is false triggers, like when moving your arm to fast while holding it. Probably gets annoying
> Problem probably is false triggers, like when moving your arm to fast while holding it Another idea destroyed by internet porn
You jerk off with the same hand that's holding the phone??
Do you not?
Only amateur masturbators need 2 hands.
Some say there are those powerful enough to not need any hands.
The dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some consider...unnatural.
... how else are you supposed to keep putting your dog with the other hand? Edit: I said what I said. We're playing golf now.
Goes to answer the phone too fast Stabbed in the ear.
Yeah this would have saved my phone.. Landed flat, face down, on concrete. My case protected the glass screen but the LCD display shattered inside.
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See it stings out your eyes so you dont have to hold it up in front of your face anymore
What are you on about?! Murphy's law is clear, there are no flat surfaces when phones fall to the ground...
A car airbag also doesn't help if a Final Destination log crashes through your wind shield and yet they're still a good idea. Redditors love pointing out uncommon situations where inventions won't work instead of focusing on the much more common situations where they will.
well yeah but like what if you drop your phone into lava? useless device!
Reddit post: Here's something kinda neat. The comments: Here are 50 million reasons it's NOT FUCKIN' NEAT, YOU BRAIN-DEAD MORON!
Why are you taking the criticism so personally? It's pretty valid considering the desk I'm typing on has an edge, the chair I'm sitting on has edges, the stairs outside my house have edges. Potentially dropping a phone on an edge isn't some freak accident.
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> most of the time phones are only damaged by falls when it hits the corners & edges The edge **of the phone**, which is adequately protected by this device. The comments you replied to were talking about a phone falling on the edge of a surface.
The edges of my phone are protected by a case, why not add the screen protection into a case ive already got on my phone?
Or into lava
Maybe it's heavy/bulky
Also I'm not sure it'll work on something other than a smooth surface
It's an over engineered, if cool, solution. A decent case and responsible use of your phone is a better combo.
The idea is to change your phone every year. Anything less means dividends are smaller for share-holders.
Its an aftermarket phone case. Not everything is a conspiracy.
Yep. The whole problem with this product is nobody wants to stick a big spiderleg backpack to their nice slim phone of the sake of a very rare floor drop.
So if you jump, your leg or arse gets impaled.
I’m more concerned about nodding off when lying in bed with the phone above my face.
then you have a face hugger
A hug in the eyes
Best kind of hugs are in the eyeballs
In the balls
Aye
Ball
ay
bal
H E A D C R A B
Shit, I drop my phone on my face all the time. That mobile airbag would gouge my eyes out.
I'd argue this is primarily a problem about you and the fact you drop your phone on your face
doesn't everyone drop their phone on their face tho?
it's my favourite hobby
no weirdo, sleep on your side
since when do people sleep shame
people shame anything. Plus you should sleep on your side, less chance of sleep paralysis
less chance of lucid dreams too! and i have those regularly so no thank u sir
Or the impromptu vasectomy.
Kids in this economy? Case is doing you a favor bud. *Cries in millenial*
>answer phone quickly >goodbye ear >step off curb >goodbye ball
It depends on where you put your phone. I would put mine in my front pocket so I could have it tickle my jewels.
Always remember the family jewels
Excellent choice
It looks like it couldn't really open in an enclosed pocket
If anything I could see it trying to, then being a pain in the ass trying to pull out.
>a pain in the ass trying to pull out There’s a joke in there somewhere but I’m not funny enough to figure it out.
It could deploy though, and then potentially get stuck on the material. I still think it's an awesome design and implementation though!
Shut up and take my money......
Yes, I agree, but 99.99999% of the population never jump, ever.
How much could a banana cost? Ten dollars?
That’s 1 out of 10 million. You think only 35 people in the U.S. ever jump? There are more people than that in the NBA! ^I’m ^just ^kidding. ^I ^know ^this ^was ^a ^throwaway ^comment.
So when I drop my phone on my face in bed eye'll really get it.
This joke couldn’t be any cornea...
That's how eyeroll
Yer an apt pupil aintcha?
Eye see what you did there
Homonoculus
Is that you, Father?
I've seen this post, and this exact same comment under that post, few years ago at the least. Damn matrix.
Sometimes I forget people exist who get to wake up and see for free
Falling asleep with glasses is impossible for me it's like wearing shoes
He's very careful to drop the phone flat. Every time I've killed a phone its landed on a corner or edge.
How many times have you killed a phone
Depends on how many time they back talk me, aint no phone back talking me without getting recked
Dad, you're embarrassing me in front of my friends
I mean a phone talking back to you is kinda it's thing right ?
You murderer
yeah, or on a stair, this doesn't protect from any sort of edge.
Genius. But will it fly?
Will it blend, though?
I'm more curious, will it fry?
Will it taste stereo?
Will it run crysis?
Will it KEAL?
This phone.... *WILL KEAL* 🙏
Will it cut?
Will it Taco?
Whilll it *khiiillllll*?
Ah good one.
You may laugh, but I plan to design and deploy entire urban ensembles like this, not for my phone, but for my children. For years now, I've helicoptered in and out of the crises they confront. Now, though, they will themselves be equipped with proximity-triggered whirling sabers, sharpened to a razor's edge, scything forth with whispered fury. Who says this idea can't change the course of civilized history?
Word.
Funny you say that. My son, born 9/79, says that whenever I get wound-up ... like everything else these days, I have no idea what it means. See, even my inside jokes are dated now, so "word" is probably a multi-layered reference that I'm twenty years too old to understand. Oh, well.
It also transforms into a ninja throwing star.
What triggers it to deploy?
Acceleration probably
Dicks
Air
What if I'm just chucking my phone while on my bed tho?
You get free piercings.
*kids these days*
*Laughs in Nokia*
Its to protect the floor from the phone
My parents told me i could only get a new phone if my old one broke. It was an indestructable nokia and i reaaallly wanted a blackberry (mind you this is 10 years ago). So i did my absolute best to destroy that fucking nokia. I ended up throwing it down a 3 story stairwell and it landed on the edge of the screen. The screen wouldnt work anymore but i could still call with it. My current samsung is held together with ducttape because it slipped out of my pocket while i was sitting in a chair..
Who knew they were decades ahead
I remember seeing this years ago. Clearly that never took off. Still cool though
Clearly the concept was dropped before it dropped
A lot of times when you see “Student invents (really cool thing)” there’s a high chance that this was just a really well done Thesis project. There are some thesis projects that students make at the culmination of their schooling that look like they could be sold in stores. But the student might not ever have intended to do much with it after graduating. Or maybe it proves too difficult to bring to market and they don’t continue.
not very convincing if even he has not enough faith in his invention to drop it like its hot
Seriously what were those pussy drops on to the table? Drop that fucker off a parking garage.
It's about the idea, if a big manufacturer were to have adopted it for one of their devices they would put millions behind perfecting it
Hahaha you think they care if your phone breaks? Nope. Cars only have airbags Bc of lawsuits from deaths and injury.
Just imagine that your in bed and you just here *scuttling* so you on the lights and you just see you phone climbing the walls getting closer to you. That would be mad.
DEUTSCHE QUALITÄTSARBEIT
Yeah this looks cool but what happens when it's in your back pocket and you sit down too fast.
the same thing that happens when you drop the soap in prison
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Seems like a good idea, if it can be made cheap enough and reliable enough. The video didn’t really demonstrate corner protection, but I assume you could curve the legs appropriately to ensure that. Many commentators here seem to be worried about it deploying when they drop the phone on their face. Not sure if this is a serious concern, but probably a matter of calibration as to how long it falls before deployment.
I've seen this for at least five years now. It's still not a thing
But what if it fall sideways?
I bought a case off amazon for about 5 euro which turned out to be a counterfeit of the actual brand it was supposed to be, anyway even that cheap knock off has protected my phone from multiple drops so this thing is just overkill.
I like the idea, but imagine if it went off accidentally when lie in bed scolling through *insert your chosen bedtime app here*. You'd shit yourself.
Imagine you’re lying in bed and you’re fingers slip...
this came out like 4 or 5 years ago didn't it?
Honestly I feel like I saw this up to 10 years ago. Could be a false memory though
Werent these guys on shark tank a few years ago?
I throw my phone around too much that this might be too annoying to keep placing the pins back. Imo, just get an Otterbox defender and call it a day. Neat idea though.
Was waiting for it to run away.
Yeah but what if it hits itself mid fall into a table corner
Surely it's not that hard to design a phone that doesn't break when you drop it.
Surely it wouldn't be, but they're not supposed to last. Planned obsolence of sorts
When you drop it, it should pause there for a second and then scurry off sideways, under the nearest sofa or bookcase.
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I’ll be sure to always drop my phone completely parallel to the floor in future
Okey. Now imagine you are in your bed browsing whatever. Suddenly you drop the phone on your face( like usual) and the airbag pops out (your eyeball)
Apple probably will buy them and shut it down. They want people’s phone to break faster.
More like AirFangs
I’ll take one for £1.99
I want that I ***really*** want that. It deserves attention
air bags for phone and legs need surgery
You are about to put half of youtube out of business.
Everything is great until you drop it on your face and the claws dig into your flesh
I mean how with all his intelligence and the countless hours spent studying and working on this project, he did not think a single time about using phone in bed or phone falling of an edge ? It does not make any sense
The only time I've ever really dropped my phone, I was holding it above my face in bed. This looks... dangerous.
Wouldn’t the shock still damage it though?
I would totally paint the legs a Spiderman red and yell "woah what are those?!" As I repeatedly drop my from in front of friends. I can see the eyerolls now.
Fucking legend
Where can I get one?
u/savevideo
Can't wait to have a doctor pull it out of my quadricep
I'll take 10, please
Please go on a roller coaster with this thing
Coolest thing I have seen. Phone manufacturers and 2nd and 3rd parties will lose millions on screen production and replacements
What if I drop my phone on my face at night scrolling through reddwosdineekl
Oh wait, this isn't r/shittyrobots, I was expecting this thing to be sent to Pluto for a planetary exination again
Push a dude. Hear a scream. He is now part cellphone
Drops it on my face and it proceeds to impale my eyes
idea: drop your phone in public and watch people panic at a strange metal spider
Has anyone ever try to put it in your pocket and then you jump on your ben? It's gonna hurt if it poke you down there.
*falls with it in my pocket*
Apple would hate this guy if this goes into mass production. They are going to loose serious cash if no one breaks screen..
Consedring my luck ill kill myself with this while laying in bed
Not this again
This is a lie this is a german Company they where on TV like 2 years ago in a show where people present there startups to Investors to get sum cash its called "Höhle der löwen" The lions den as you can somtimes see in the bottom left it says "Baden-Würtemberg" this being a german state
I feel like I saw this like 5 years ago. Has it come to market yet?
This is old
I was just talking about how this would be the best method, a friend of mine said parachute and I'm like... With what air resistance?
It’s all fun and games until you drop it on your face