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1 .This is Scientific American's 60-Second Tech. I'm Larry Greenemeier. Got a minute?
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2 .You probably know at least half a dozen people walking around with cracked smartphone screens.
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3 .These devices may be everywhere, but they're not built to last.
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4 .Smartphone companies figure you'll just buy a new one.
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5 .Still, Apple is at least thinking about ways to make their gadgets more resilient.
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6 .The U.S.Patent and Trademark Office recently awarded the company a patent for an electronic device that could determine when it is in freefall and then prepare itself for impact.
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7 .The future device would quickly rearrange or even eject internal components to change its center of mass.
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8 .It might even alter its trajectory with an airfoil or mini compressed-gas thruster.
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9 .Either way, the gadget would land in a way that causes the least damage.
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10 .Such a system is a lot more complicated than simply making a more durable screen, which is high on a lot of customers' wish lists.
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11 .Apple had been toying with tougher screens that use what's called sapphire glass for the iPhone 6,
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12 .but its supplier apparently couldn't correctly produce the necessary synthetic sapphire.
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13 .So iPhone users now get the industry-standard Gorilla Glass touchscreen and a glimpse at a future potentially populated with smartphones that even fall intelligently.
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14 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Tech. I'm Larry Greenemeier.
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