Helite has years of experience developing specialized wearable airbag systems for various activities, everything from horse riding to skiing. Now the French company has an airbag for a new demographic ...

Helite, the airbag company mostly known for its work with making vehicles and motorcycles safer, is now targeting a different demographic with their airbags. Hip’Safe is the first wearable airbag that ...

It doesn’t matter how much milk you drink, at a certain age your bones start to lose their strength, eventually putting you at risk for broken limbs and even worse: a broken hip that hinders your ...

Airbags are essential to safety in modern vehicles, but in their first production vehicle, they were actually made as a way to replace seat belts entirely.

ActiveProtective, a healthcare startup that developed a belt designed to not only detect a fall but also deploy a micro airbag to protect seniors from injuries such as hip fractures when they do, has ...

About 2.8 million seniors are treated in the emergency room for injuries related to falls each year, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 800,000 of these falls ...

The first commercial airbags were introduced in passenger cars during the 1970s. We won’t start arguing who was first or who invented them, but we’ll tell you they remained in the automotive industry ...

Air bags have long been mounted in the steering wheel, dashboard and sides of vehicles. Now, they're in the seat belts. Ford Motor Co. plans to introduce seat belt-mounted air bags in the back seat of ...

Driver and front passenger seat belts with built-in air bags are being introduced in the Lexus LFA supercar, which is scheduled to start production this month. The new front-seat-belt system inflates ...

I know dozens of tech-savvy senior citizens relying on the latest technology to help with their lives. Take my own parents, for example: Every morning, my 83-year-old dad rehabs his new Tivanium alloy ...