Earthquake-proof table uses geometry to save lives

"The earthquake-proof table started when I was a student in industrial design at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem," told co-inventor Arthur Brutter to CNN. "At the beginning I wanted a solution to help in natural disasters ... I looked at pictures of a school that was crushed in the earthquake in Haiti and they really shocked me." The award winning earthquake-proof table absorbs the falling object's energy and the debris is forced to the side. Thus, it may just offer an affordable protection to students in earthquake-prone countries.