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The Invisible Bike Helmet: Would You Pay $600 for an Airbag for Your Head?

mrosen814 2012/08/16 18:00:00
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Anna Haupt and Terese Alstinat created the first "invisible" bicycle helmet. According to TechCrunch, "The invisible bicycle helmet uses rechargeable battery-powered accelerometers and gyroscopes that detect the typical motions involved in a bike crash. They trigger a tiny gas inflator which instantly fills a nylon airbag with helium. The bag forms a hood around your head that cushions the impact of the street, a car, or anything else you slam into."

The product and company, named Hövding, began as the industrial design master’s thesis of the Swedish duo. Their motivation to revolutionize the bicycle helmet stems from their dislike of current helmet appearance and complaints over how uncomfortable they are. The inflatable helmet only works once and has a $600 price tag. Will you be next in line to purchase one of the cranial airbags?

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  • Kozmo DP 2012/09/16 19:34:10 (edited)
    Kozmo
    Your (Bad) Psychology (Denial) is showing. Please make sense.
    Obfuscate & I'll SarCastrate. Let's both REASON instead.
    "Games People Play", book published in 1964.
  • DP Kozmo 2012/09/17 23:27:41
    DP
    +1
    You're the one who believes in fairy tales.
  • Kozmo DP 2012/09/18 06:32:51
    Kozmo
    As are most Sacred Texts, the Tao an (ambiguous) exception.
    Your answer is unreasonably puerile too. Psychology is REAL.
  • DP Kozmo 2012/09/18 22:08:25
    DP
    Not puerile. The truth.
  • Kozmo DP 2012/09/22 08:30:21
    Kozmo
    That's only your Belief, not knowledge. Bible & Koran are Absolutely APOCRYPHAL, no TANGIBLE evidence of Abraham, Moses, Jesus or Mohammad, all HEARSAY.
    Somebody else's IMAGINATIVE writing. STALEMATE.
  • DP Kozmo 2012/09/22 22:33:09
    DP
    Dude, you're contradicting yourself. You're admitting that you're delusional.
  • Kozmo DP 2012/09/27 05:15:30
    Kozmo
    "Happiness is not being pained in body or in spirit"
    - Thomas Jefferson

    "The greatest happiness you can get love is that you do not necessarily require happiness" - William Saroyan

    The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage" - Thucydides

    I plead Theia Mania…
  • Terran Sherwood 2012/08/17 18:26:42
    No
    Terran Sherwood
    $600 for a one use turtleneck/helmet? So if I go on a particularly rough road and it accidental inflates, all I have to show for it is the world's least convincing Founding Fathers Wig?
  • mae 2012/08/17 16:58:41
    No
    mae
    +1
    I could see this if I was an avid bike-rider, but i'm not. I'd spend it on airfare, though.
  • Kozmo mae 2012/08/18 01:01:32
    Kozmo
    +1
    Better being airborne in an inspected vehicle than being an air-head.
  • mae Kozmo 2012/08/18 18:41:38
    mae
    +1
    *...scratches forehead and wonders what that means?...*
  • Kozmo mae 2012/08/19 03:18:31 (edited)
    Kozmo
    +1
    Obliquely repeating what you said. An airline is operated & maintained trained by qualified staff (at least I hope) & you've said you're not committed enough to purchase this "Fashion Fascist Fallacious Folly" for your riding needs.
    Me too, could buy 3 or 4 DOT-rated helmets for motorbikes with that money or 10 good bicycle ones with same. I'm just being a[n Anal] Word·Smith & it took me 7 times more verbiage to restate it.
  • mae Kozmo 2012/08/19 22:29:24
    mae
    +1
    You have stated it beautifully, and I agree with you. :-)
  • towanda 2012/08/17 16:06:59
    Yes
    towanda
    +1
    We'd all look silly, but silly is better than being dead, right?
  • Kozmo towanda 2012/08/19 03:20:08
    Kozmo
    Brings a new meaning for "Looks that Kill".
  • Devin Pederson 2012/08/17 15:50:18
    No
    Devin Pederson
    +1
    That looks incredibly retarded. I think I'll just get a regular one that won't make me look stupid if I fall for a lot cheaper.
  • OneLastWord 2012/08/17 15:40:26 (edited)
    No
    OneLastWord
    Air Heads Will buy it.
  • Noobcake 2012/08/17 14:46:49
    No
    Noobcake
    A) God forbid you forget to charge those batteries!!!

    B) 100% more bugs in your eyes, nose, and mouth.

    C) I'd take helmet hair any day over the "I blow-dried my hair in a tornado" look.
  • Kozmo Noobcake 2012/08/18 01:06:39
    Kozmo
    What if you run into a swarm of bees or wasps
    and spill from avoiding being stung or getting so?
    It could be compromised.
    Biker's nightmare: getting a stinging insect scooped into your skid lid.
  • Noobcake Kozmo 2012/08/18 01:14:51
    Noobcake
    O.o I've never in my entire life driven through a swarm of anything. So chances are if I started driving a motorcycle (which I never will because I value my life) I would no more encounter that problem than I would otherwise. Furthermore, it stands to reason that an enclosed helmet would serve you better in such a situation than NO protection from things flying at your face at all - which is what this inflatable helmet would offer.
  • Kozmo Noobcake 2012/08/18 07:48:22
    Kozmo
    After 32 years, found I was safer on 2 wheels than 4,
    hafta pay better attention to survive
  • Professor Wizard 2012/08/17 14:25:22
    Yes
    Professor Wizard
    Especially, if Missouri would allow it, instead of DOT Helmets.
  • nate 2012/08/17 14:24:17
    No
    nate
    +1
    Just wear a normal helmet, and if you don't like those get a skateboarding helmet to look cooler. Who would ever pay $600 for this piece of crap.
  • OneLast... nate 2012/08/17 15:44:03
    OneLastWord
    Yipper, ..The inflatable helmet only works once and has a $600 price tag.
  • Kozmo OneLast... 2012/08/18 01:09:03
    Kozmo
    Motorcycle helmets are meant to be tossed after being 'needed' once.
    How much are is your (functioning i.e.) brains worth?
  • OneLast... Kozmo 2012/08/18 16:50:45
    OneLastWord
    Uh?
    Last sentence don't make it with me for some reason?
  • Kozmo OneLast... 2012/08/18 17:18:04 (edited)
    Kozmo
    Forgot to insert separatrices to allow a choice on whether you regard your brain/s as singular or plural. Only got a 'C' in Eng11 (last century), but can 'bone up'. Prefer to offer a/some choice rather than pinning down/funneling.
  • boots 2012/08/17 14:20:52
    Yes
    boots
    Its a great Idea but I will wait till it comes down in price.
  • Larry 2012/08/17 14:17:00
    No
    Larry
    LOL thats about stupid looking and i wouldn't pay 60 cents for one, they should sell one to Lady Gay Gay
  • OneLast... Larry 2012/08/17 15:47:52 (edited)
    OneLastWord
    I think her name is Lady gag gag, but close enough, LOL
  • Wortmore 2012/08/17 14:05:14 (edited)
    No
    Wortmore
    Protection level: UNDER -9000!!!!
  • The heartless 2012/08/17 13:22:21
    No
    The heartless
    +1
    That thing looks ridiculous!
  • All American 2012/08/17 12:56:23
    No
    All American
    That can come in handy when her husband whops up side the head if she has an abusive husband.
  • Kozmo All Ame... 2012/08/18 01:10:05
    Kozmo
    +1
    You would have to install Doppler Radar for that to work.
  • Flamingolady 2012/08/17 12:36:40
  • Franklin 2012/08/17 11:05:54
    No
    Franklin
    +2
    Helmet laws are stupid , it gives a false sense of safety and offers LESS than ZERO protection from any real world injury ...only people who don't ride and-or don't have a clue support helmets and retell the lies about them being a good idea or saving lives
  • Wortmore Franklin 2012/08/17 14:06:48
    Wortmore
    I NEVER wore a helmet biking when I was a kid, and I'm still alive, now, every kid is told to wear a helmet when biking
  • OneLast... Franklin 2012/08/17 16:19:32 (edited)
    OneLastWord
    Really?

    They have been tested just like seat belts and air bags, they do save lives, from head injuries, and in cars, belts and air bags give very good safety support. Just take a tour of almost any State Police films about wearing helmets and the use of seat belts and the advantage of air bags.

    Smart people were helmets, click seat belts and want air bags in their autos.

    You said: "offers LESS than ZERO protection from any real world injury"

    There is no such thing as a physical safety device offering less than 0 protections.
    Not possible.

    See “Fox News Today” about current events, video from yesterday 8-16-12 it was a PM broadcast about this race car driver that went over this steep hill side and had a totally destroyed race car, got out with a cracked rib, he had an X seat belt strap on, and helmet. Walked away from a totally destroyed auto and his helmet was cracked in three-four places. NO HEAD injuries. He would have been dead without that helmit.
  • Bill G53 ~PWCM~JLA 2012/08/17 10:54:45
    No
    Bill G53  ~PWCM~JLA
    Complaints of uncomfortable bike helmets? Sure some are but I bought a full face Shoei and it is very comfortable and it only cost me $170.

    Plus it meets the laws of my state that say I must wear a helmet.

    It also protects my face from things like bugs and rain that actually hurt at any speed over 40.
  • dekecds Bill G5... 2012/08/18 01:19:53
    dekecds
    +1
    on a bicycle...not a motorcycle....

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