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Help Develop BOUNCE™ — Pre-Impact Fall Protection

My name is Floyd “Rick” Lawrence.

After a serious fall put me in the hospital for weeks, I began developing BOUNCE™, a patented wearable fall-impact protection system designed to deploy before a person hits the ground.

I don’t usually ask for help — but this project exists because what happened to me happens to millions of people every year.

Why BOUNCE™ Exists

Early in 2025, my VA vascular surgeon told me she was concerned about my risk of falling. Half-jokingly, she said she wished she could wrap me in bubble wrap.

On Christmas Eve 2025, that joke became painfully real.

I slipped on a dog toy, broke a foot, severely injured my knee, and spent two weeks in the hospital. The pain, recovery, and disruption that followed were significant. During that time, I said more than once that I wished I had been wrapped in bubble wrap.

So I started thinking about what that would actually mean.

BOUNCE™ was born from that moment — not as a product idea, but as a response to a real, lived problem.

The Problem

Falls are not rare events.

They are ordinary moments that become life-changing in milliseconds.

Over 40,000 deaths per year in the U.S. are attributed to falls

Annual costs exceed $80 billion, much of it borne by taxpayers

Typical treatment costs range from $65,000–$70,000 per event

And those numbers don’t capture the pain, loss of independence, and long recoveries that follow.

Most existing solutions:

Detect falls after injury occurs

Protect only limited areas (like hips)

Fail during complex, real-world falls

Real falls are unpredictable. Protection needs to be, too.

The BOUNCE™ Approach

BOUNCE™ is a belt-mounted system designed to detect an imminent fall and deploy protective airbags before impact, forming protective containment around the body.

Key principles:

Pre-impact deployment

Broad, body-level protection

Designed for real-world fall dynamics

Worn externally for reliability and consistency

This isn’t about limiting people.

It’s about protecting people as they live their lives.

Why We’re Crowdfunding

The provisional patent is secured.

The core system is defined.

We’re raising funds to:

Build pilot-ready units

Conduct controlled testing

Prepare for VA and Medicare pilot pathways

Crowdfunding allows us to move forward carefully, transparently, and independently — with support from people who believe this kind of protection should exist.

Transparency & Responsibility

BOUNCE™ is currently in development.

We are not offering a consumer medical product at this stage.

Contributions support research, testing, and pilot readiness only.

We are committed to building this responsibly, with clear expectations and no shortcuts.

Thank you for reading — and for supporting the development of something that could prevent injuries before they happen.

Floyd “Rick” Lawrence

Inventor, BOUNCE™