with mobile airbag cover

Surely it has happened to you, that by the time you mistakenly throw your smartphone, you feel that everything stops, you hear the beating of your heart and the buzz of the world getting while you watch idling your pirouette '


This will not happen again thanks to the ingenuity of Philip Frenzel, a German from Aalen University, who invented a holster protection that works as an airbag for your phone. What makes "Spider-App" special when compared to other cases is its ability to detect when your equipment falls and for the moment deploying eight small, flexible legs in the corners.

Initially, Frenzel thought by incorporating a real airbag mechanism into the phone and then experimenting with protective foam. However, none of these ideas seemed practical, so instead of something soft, he considered the option of something elastic, like retractable legs.

Thanks to this, the young man succeeds in designing eight thin metal arms. which lie flat in the sleeve. But when they are released, they come out and bend, protecting the edges of the phone from impact and softening the blow considerably.

When you pick up your phone, you simply fold the springs into their holsters, preparing them for their next deployment.

For four years, the young man created different versions and now that he has finished his product, he filed a patent application with the German government and printed T-shirts with his logo, as well as A crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. support of your university, to be able to transform the product in reality in a massive way.