Finally, a smart bike helmet that lights your way, protects your brain and still looks cool / Boing Boing

No person thinks they will get into an accident, which is half the rationale why bicycle riders usually sneer at sporting a helmet. The opposite half of the reason being apparent — helmets normally make you look extremely dorky.

So the trick for any producer is developing with a helmet that is each cool in addition to purposeful sufficient to doubtlessly save your life if wanted.

Lumen Lab could have cracked the code with its Lumos LED Reflective Kickstart Helmet, a chunk of protecting headgear that safeguards your head and contains sufficient good options to make you smile at its ingenuity. And sure, it would not make you appear to be a dork both.

Excellent for commuters, touring riders and even inline skaters, and rollerbladers, the Lumos Kickstart has 70 built-in LED lights that do not simply gentle your manner with their ahead radiance, but in addition alerts turns, alerts different drivers to braking and customarily turns a motorcycle rider into a real car driver. 

With the handlebar-mounted distant, you hit the button identical to a flip sign — and the lights reply. The built-in accelerometer additionally charts your velocity robotically so whenever you decelerate, the purple lights within the rear of the helmet gentle to sign you are braking. You too can sync the Kickstart to your Apple Watch, which senses hand alerts for left and proper turns, then lights the alerts appropriately.

Even in twilight or nighttime hours, you possibly can nonetheless journey with a way of safety, figuring out you may be seen by motorists and different drivers on the highway.

Along with monitoring your alerts, the helmet additionally connects to the Lumos, which lets you customise your lights, monitor exercise, or sync with different apps like Strava and Apple Well being. The rechargeable battery runs for about three hours, which ought to be capable of get most riders by means of their total commuting week on a single cost.

In the meantime, your head stays continually protected by the helmet’s EPS foam core and impression resistant polycarbonate shell.

It is not solely a step ahead for biking headwear, however the Lumos Kickstart can be a money-saver as properly with the present supply. Repeatedly $179, it is currently 20 percent off at just $142.99.

Costs are topic to vary.

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