IBM installs laptop 'air bag'

[ukgimp]

Aus IT [australianit.news.com.au]

Even more reason not to use your laptop on take off :)

Two new models of ThinkPad notebook computers unveiled by IBM come with a chip that can detect when the laptop is accelerating

[TheDave]

Also, the CPU ejects, and springs a little parachute

[whizkiddo]

couldnt they fix it so that it can detect when the exhausted user is about to collapse no the laptop - thus springing out the airbag...giving a cushion to the exhausted webmaster :) as well as saving some expensive equipment?!

[dmorison]

Now that is the sort of thing worthy of a patent, not single-click shopping carts.