It begins. We've parachuted the Engadget team into Vegas ready to tackle CES 2018, and while the press events officially start tomorrow, we're already reporting on cars, chips and a bunch of crazier things, as illustrated above.
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They make airbags for people now.
French company Helite has been selling wearable airbags in some shape or form for many years. Typically, it's targeted bikers, horse riders, light-aircraft pilots and other people with dangerous hobbies. This year at CES, it's pitching the Hip'Air, a 2.2-pound belt that detects when an elderly person is falling and deploys an airbag. A typical fall, a Helite spokesperson explained, takes 400 milliseconds. Using gyroscopes and accelerometers, the Hip'Air can detect a fall within 200 milliseconds of its beginning. The belt will then begin to deploy its built-in airbag, which takes a further 80 milliseconds.
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