Cardboard helmet

[Half-Fast Mike]

I found this cardboard helmet interesting (BBC Future)

"Industrial designer Anirudha Surabhi has created the new, super-strong Kranium bike helmet, which protect cyclists’ heads by mimicking features of the woodpecker’s distinctive anatomy."

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"According to laboratory tests, the Kranium liner absorbs three times as much force as polystyrene helmets, and, because 90% of the liner is air, it’s also 15% lighter."

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"The first helmets, he says, will be available for purchase in the UK and Japan in mid-January."

Sure enough...

http://www.diatechproducts.com/abus/kranium_ecolution.html

¥16,800

 

[Jayves]

Nice... I wonder if it is waterproof. Looking at the picture, the cardboard inside seems penetrable by water from the two holes at the front and back.

Paper + water = pulp

 

[FarEast]

I'll wait for a Japanese brand to go all origami on this design - looks poo

 

[jdd]

Nice... I wonder if it is waterproof.
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...and sweatproof/wash-off-able.

 

[onm]

Looks like a BMX lid.

 

[kiwisimon]

If it wasn't black I'd give it a shot. No , not really.