Remote-Control Avalanche Airbags
By Rocky Thompson on January 11th, 2010
You take every precaution, but a slide still manages to swallow you before you can pull the ripcord on your backpack’s avalanche airbag. Or maybe you unknowingly set off a slab and don’t realize the snow and ice is bearing down on you. Now the technology exists for your skiing partners to remotely activate your airbags. You ski one at a time anyway, so it’s not asking too much to have buddy standing on the top with his finger on the button. Just don’t ‘poach his line’ or else BAM, airbags will be popping. So far no manufactures have adopted the technology.
via Wend
This could make some epic footage.
It would be sweet if bc.com carried some airbags…comming soon?
bc.com can’t ship airbags with the pressurized cartridges. we would face immense fines if one exploded in the back of a mail truck. i suppose we could sell airbags that you inflate by blowing into them….any takers?
Actually, you can ship these with full cylinders as long as you have a hazardous materials permit, which just takes a day or so of training. With empty cylinders, there are no special regulations. BCA will ship its Float 30 airbags with empty cylinders next year so you can get them filled at a local SCUBA or paintball shop.
You cold use this to keep your drunk friends from hooking up with ugly chicks.
You see Tommy getting a number of a clearly “drank till she was cute” girl and POOF! The airbag goes off which will magically reduce the space between them. Great party trick.