| Seat belts are a great safety feature for cars, | | | | space craft, space stations, and off-planet colonies |
| trucks, and other vehicles. Motorcycles do not have | | | | prior to quakes or incoming asteroid detection. The |
| any, but race cars, aircraft, and space craft do. Now | | | | seat can conform around your legs, back, and even |
| I suspect that in the future seat belt systems will be | | | | protect your heat by wrapping around your skull. It |
| much different than they are today. The reality is | | | | could save your life. |
| that seat belts are not a very good design, unless | | | | Airliner seats might nearly encapsulate you prior to |
| you are talking a multi-point belt system like fighter | | | | impact, there would be few deaths, and all of this |
| planes or aircraft. Normal seat belts just run people | | | | technology is nearly here with carbon-nano-tube |
| the wrong way. Along comes new high-tech shape | | | | sheet materials, which are flexible and 250 times |
| shifting materials to change that game forever. Let | | | | stronger than steel. No more need to worry about |
| me explain; | | | | your brittle bones and soft skinned shell. Since, these |
| Have you ever put your carcass in a roller coaster | | | | materials will be lighter as well, that means better fuel |
| ride where the bar comes down over you? It seems | | | | economy and use of energy as well. |
| to be a one-size fits all system, and yet, has multiple | | | | What's preventing this potential eventuality and |
| locking points, still, it also leaves a lot to be desired. I | | | | probable future? Right now only cost, but don't |
| am sure you agree although you accept this as being | | | | despair because the military and space efforts can |
| adequate and for the most part it pretty much is, | | | | afford it now. It will make things lighter, and they will |
| but we can do better in the future with shape | | | | save on fuel, performance, and safety. Eventually |
| shifting materials. Imagine you are in the dining room | | | | these hand-me-down transfer technologies will be |
| on a cruise ship and you hit rough seas. | | | | available in your hybrid BMW for freeway safety. |
| Shape shifting seats can conform to you rear end to | | | | Give it a decade or so, we will get there. After all, |
| keep in place - you get more comfort and safety, | | | | that's my job in writing articles, introducing new |
| and the haptic embedded sensors, with Artificial | | | | concepts to the world. Hey, every idea has to start |
| Intelligent chips allow the material to mold to your | | | | somewhere. Think on that. Share your innovations, |
| individual body type. We can do the same thing for | | | | concepts, and ideas too. |