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Saturday, December 3, 2011

Alpinestars Tech Air Race Suit




Jeff Harris
Wearable airbags
The Alpinestars suit can reduce the impact of a motorcycle crash to one tenth of what a racer wearing conventional body armor would suffer. The suit continuously monitors the rider's movements using embedded sensors, which communicate with a computer programmed to differentiate the motion that immediately precedes a crash from normal motion. When the system determines that a crash is imminent, it deploys airbags along the shoulders and collarbone in milliseconds to soften the blow.
$8,000 (est.)


- Ref:popsci.com
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