An Automated Shield to Protect You from Dropping Your Phone on Yourself

突然のスマホ落下から顔面を守る装置を作りました！ pic.twitter.com/S7zCAvpMiN

— カズヤシバタ(KAZUYA SHIBATA) (@seevua) October 13, 2023

I keep reading news stories and commentary about how excessive cell phone usage is harming us. I was confused until I saw this video by Japanese inventor Kazuya Shibata. Now I understand the concern: it’s easy to drop a cell phone on your face if you use it while lying down. And we have a solution from Shibata: the automatic face shield.

The build video is in Japanese, but I gather that this 3D printed machine automatically deploys the shield when an object passes through motion sensors. It’s the kind of genius innovation that we’ve come to expect from Shibata, who previously changed modern life with his automatic shirt flapper.

-via Science Girl

Source: neatorama