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Former basketball hopeful wants to prevent ACL tears with airbags for knees
You’ve heard of car airbags deploying within milliseconds to protect passengers. How about an airbag for your knee?
“I dedicated myself to intensive training… But at 17, just as I was preparing for a professional basketball career and NCAA trials, I heard a sickening pop from my knee while landing from a dunk,” he said. The injury ended Shaw’s sporting career prospects, but it gave him the idea to combine AI-driven sensors and a “knee-bag.” He dropped out of the London School of Economics to develop it. Hippos said the brace uses predictive AI to detect risky movements in real-time and deploys airbags around the knee, potentially saving athletes thousands in medical expenses.
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