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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Designers Put Airbags In Clothes To Protect People From Falls
Description: Cars have had airbags for years; there are even inflatable airbag pants for motorcyclists. Now there are inflatable airbag clothing that can protect people who fall. Plus: a 19th century dress came with a strange coded message, but that message has now been decoded.
Wearable Airbags Instantly Protect The Elderly When They Fall (DesignTaxi)
A Woman Hid This Secret Code in Her Silk Dress in 1888—and Codebreakers Just Solved It (Popular Mechanics)
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