Jun 8, 2011
Cardboard bicycle helmet is safer than the styrofoam helmet you have now.
Student designer Anirudha Surabhi has invented a bike helmet, called Kranium, that protects your head with cardboard. According to Wired, it
absorbs four times more impact energy that the polystyrene equivalent, and — unlike regular helmets which break on impact — it survives longer. One Kranium was smashed five times in a row and still passed the British Standard (EN 1078) test.
* * * * *
But what happens if you get caught in the rain?
Parcel tape, of course!
From the Wired post:
“Surabhi’s helmets mix the cardboard with a “waterproof acrylic compound” which makes them just as rain-resistant as the helmet you have now.”
I dunno…seems like a recipe for waffle fry brain to me.
Very ingenious design…all those egg dropping experiments from the top of the high school finally yielded something!
Yeah about that…still gonna stick to my styrofoam rated helmet…forever…
Can I buy one?
Interesting… I never thought of wearing a helmet on a bicycle.
Well… what about a nicely cutted chessboard look after an accident?