Just wait until Apple incorporates this new patent into the iPhones, one hell of a video would be captured during such a fall due to the falling phone’s stability in its fall.
http://gizmodo.com/apple-patents-method-to-make-iphones-fall-like-a-cat-1665632659
How many cats did apple drop from unknown altitudes to gain this data?
Are they just as “phoney” about animal rights as they are the queer stuff??
What the hell? Time to impact? How would they know what's under them and how far away it is? The camera is at an arbitrary angle and images would be unusable for ranging due to rotation etc. That makes no sense.
> The device would then use an onboard motor to reorient itself in order to protect fragile components like the screen or the camera when it hits the ground.
Okay, I could see this working. I spent years designing spacecraft attitude control system components that used this exact principle (the motor, not the screen hitting the ground).
> The device's on-board vibration motor could be employed, so it would even screech a little bit as it feel towards Earth, just like a cat.
That's gratuitous. My cat does NOT screech under any circumstances. The only times he's fallen an appreciable distance he was too busy flipping around to orient himself for landing.