Some interesting new helmet design prototypes

SerialComplaint

360-degree cameras

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681480/this-sleek-bike-helmet-makes-sure-that-hit-and-run-drivers-get-caught

with built-in brake/turn signals

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681545/this-helmet-with-brake-lights-and-turn-signals-lets-bikers-speak-the-language-of-cars#7

I'd prefer the former....

tomasrojo

From the comments:

Joe Ting

There are a lot of people out there that can`t see too well, yet continue to drive. A little arrow on a helmet is not going to cut it. They just see it as a blob. A flashing light on your hand (glove) would be a lot better. You can set it to turn on when you hold the knuckles vertically

These do exist. There was a design of glove that had a mercury tilt switch in it, so that a light would come on on your glove when you orientated your hand a particular way. Can't remember the name of it now.

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tomasrojo wrote: »

From the comments:


These do exist. There was a design of glove that had a mercury tilt switch in it, so that a light would come on on your glove when you orientated your hand a particular way. Can't remember the name of it now.

http://road.cc/content/news/74361-uk-company-launches-lumin8a-indicator-gloves-video

tomasrojo

Not quite that one I was thinking of. Goude made a similar one to that one -- i.e. the light being activated by pressing a button in the finger of the glove. The Bike Indicator Glove, I think it was imaginatively called.

petethedrummer

I've been thinking about designing a helmet helmet. The helmet helmet would be cheap and fit over your expensive regular helmet and protect it from cracking when you fall. Your regular helmet would still be there to protect your head. You can then replace the helmet helmet each time you crack it at a much lower cost.

dave_o_brien

petethedrummer wrote: »

I've been thinking about designing a helmet helmet. The helmet helmet would be cheap and fit over your expensive regular helmet and protect it from cracking when you fall. Your regular helmet would still be there to protect your head. You can then replace the helmet helmet each time you crack it at a much lower cost.

It'd need to be totally transparent. I spent a lot of money on my helmet. I don't want to damage my euro-cool by being caught wearing a helmet helmet.

petethedrummer

dave_o_brien wrote: »

It'd need to be totally transparent. I spent a lot of money on my helmet. I don't want to damage my euro-cool by being caught wearing a helmet helmet.

And here it is, the helmet helmet 2.0...


















That's the aero model.

check_six

dave_o_brien wrote: »

It'd need to be totally transparent. I spent a lot of money on my helmet. I don't want to damage my euro-cool by being caught wearing a helmet helmet.

It'd be transparent all right, hi-vis transparent!

lennymc

petethedrummer wrote: »

I've been thinking about designing a helmet helmet. The helmet helmet would be cheap and fit over your expensive regular helmet and protect it from cracking when you fall. Your regular helmet would still be there to protect your head. You can then replace the helmet helmet each time you crack it at a much lower cost.

not sure if your serious or not, but the protection in a helmet is on the inside.

check_six

petethedrummer wrote: »

And here it is, the helmet helmet 2.0...











That's the aero model.

I like what you've done with the fins. Very groovy.

These should be compulsory for all road users, and non-road users. Hell, I'd feel compelled to wear this on a night out!

dave_o_brien

check_six wrote: »

I like what you've done with the fins. Very groovy.

These should be compulsory for all road users, and non-road users. Hell, I'd feel compelled to wear this on a night out!

I'm wearing mine right now.

petethedrummer

lennymc wrote: »

not sure if your serious or not, but the protection in a helmet is on the inside.

Why do they have the outside bit then?

lennymc

petethedrummer wrote: »

Why do they have the outside bit then?

to keep the inside bit in

check_six

dave_o_brien wrote: »

I'm wearing mine right now.

I used to like them before they got so damn popular. They are so all pervasive now that they are a bit passé.

I think I might dust off my classic Helmet Helmet v1.0. Original shape. Very retro. Nice.

dave_o_brien

check_six wrote: »

I used to like them before they got so damn popular. They are so all pervasive now that they are a bit passé.

I think I might dust off my classic Helmet Helmet v1.0. Original shape. Very retro. Nice.

Hipster, with your retro helmet helmet. They weigh sooooo much more.

petethedrummer

lennymc wrote: »

to keep the inside bit in

Jaysus, you're right.

check_six

dave_o_brien wrote: »

Hipster, with your retro helmet helmet. They weigh sooooo much more.

Don't care. Steel is real, baby!