Put off cycling because you don’t like wearing a helmet?
A new Swedish invention means there’s no longer any excuse.
The Hövding is an inflatable “invisible helmet” that slips around your neck in a deflated state, leaving the head exposed.
It’s equipped with accelerometers and gyroscopes that can detect when you’re falling off your bike, rapidly filling a nylon bag with helium.
The Hövding then cushions your head from potentially brain-damaging impacts. It only takes one-tenth of a second to inflate.
Sweden made wearing bike helmets compulsory 15 years ago.
“To people like us, who wouldn’t be seen dead in a polystyrene helmet, the thought that we might be forced to wear one by law was cause for concern,” Hövding creators Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin say on their website.
via 3News
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