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Laptops incorporate drop-protection 'airbags'The world's first laptops incorporating automatic protection against the damage caused by a drop have been launched by US computer maker IBM.
The new ThinkPad systems use an onboard accelerometer to detect a sudden fall. If an impact seems imminent, then within a tenth of a second the computer's hard drive stops writing data and the read/write head is retracted to a safe position.
This is to protect the drive from damage that can result from jarring. An impact can cause the drive's heads to skid across the magnetic disks used to store information inside a hard drive, creating unusabl
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