Sadly, I dropped my iPod Touch yesterday and it landed on a hard surface, face down, creating a massive crack from corner to corner. This lead me to thinking of how Apple could stop this happening. An accelerometer based sensor tells when the idevice is spinning as it falls, or can tell it is moving at a high speed which releases some sort of shock absorber on the front. Could this work?
The whole thing should fill with helium and float back into the user's hand. The pre has this feature.
......or just float away into the sky, never to be seen again, lol. It would be pretty cool though. @ lord-sam's idea There probably would be quite a few problems with this idea. Firstly, I doubt that it would be able to deploy quick enough. And it would be hard to get the sensitivity right, you would need it to deploy when you drop it, but you don't want it going off when you are using it, lol. In theory it's a nice idea, but in real life, it wouldn't work/would be very hard to get right.
the thing with buying a case is that it is a 1st gen, and only a handful of cases were ever made before the 2nd gen came out.
