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A Personal Airbag for Fall Protection
A Full-Circle Moment for Independent Living: Smart Hip Guardian at CES 2026 Exactly a decade ago at CES 2016, ViodiTV explored an intriguing prototype concept: the wearable airbag to protect professional race skiers. Back then, the idea of a belt deploying emergency cushions in real time to soften a human fall sounded almost like science…
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The Wearable Airbag #CES2016
One of the most unusual wearables at CES 2016 was from a French company Inemotion. Inemotion invented a ski vest that contains an airbag, Packed with sensors, this device detects that a skier is falling and deploys an airbag to soften the impact of a fall; all in less than 100 milliseconds. With a focus on the…
