Passenger protector

Usage examples of airbag.

The entire baseplate the bar had stood on was enclosed in what appeared to be an enormous airbag.

He tried to glance over at Gamay, but the airbags deployed and all he could see was exploding white plastic.

In an instant the great plastic flowers of airbags bloomed before each seat, their multiple release coming with the sound of a single explosion.

It did everything else it could do to protect its passengers, inflating airbags with precise bursts of explosive to shield Kelly and his mother from injury while the sides of the van crumpled to absorb the impact from outside.

Suddenly Stanley was slammed forward, then instantly backward as an airbag exploded in his face.

We shoved him into the narrow backseat as the Pike computer checked some eighty or ninety roadworthiness items every time you entered, from airbag sensors to tire pressure.

The car had had airbags, at least, which had kept the two in the car from going through the windshield.

The blankety-blank things chafed her blankety-blank neck, and the state had no business telling people what they could do on their private property, which her car was, and the car had airbags anyway so there was no need for seat-belts, blah blah blah.

It wasn't a crustie at all, but a sickly young man with a badly-shaved head and an oversized navy raincoat who, having fulfilled his role as a human airbag, was attempting to wriggle out from beneath his attacker and stand up.

The airbag inflates, comes back down a second later like a curtain revealing the structure of his new life: he is stuck in a dead car in an empty pool in a TMAWH, the sirens of the Burbclave's security police are approaching, and there's a pizza behind his head, resting there like the blade of a guillotine, with 25:17 on it.

They also didn't know what a radio was, or an airport, or a movie, or a television, or a computer, or a cell phone, or a jet, an antibiotic, a rocket, a satellite, an MRI, ICU, IUD, ICBM, EEG, EPA, IRS, DOD, PCP, HTML, internet, interferon, instant replay, remote sensing, remote control, speed dialing, gene therapy, gene splicing, genes, spot welding, heat-seeking, bipolar, prozac, leotards, lap dancing, email, tape recorder, CDs, airbags, plastic explosive, plastic, robots, cars, liposuction, transduction, superconduction, dish antennas, tupperware, sneakers, step aerobics, smoothies, twelve-step, ultrasound, nylon, rayon, teflon, fiber optics, fuel cell, fuel injection, carpal tunnel, laser surgery, laparoscopy, corneal transplant, kidney transplant, AIDS&None of these things would have meant anything to a person in the year 1900.

So I explained that since these days, dual airbags are such a big selling point for car buyers, why shouldn't the concept appeal to book buyers as well?

A full black coverall that swaddles everything from toes to neck in breathable, bulletproof fabric, with armorgel pads n all the right places and airbags around the neck.