Here's DORA the bicycle helmet prototype from awarded designer Balazs Filczer. Skipping the fact that we're looking at a bike helmet, it's the embedded turn signals which made us think about how cool could such a motorcycle lid be. And adding in the LumiLor technology only makes things awesome.
With Bluetooth, the integration of the helmet luminous elements and the bike is solved: a simple controller can send the appropriate commands to the helmet and with many modern bikes sporting self-canceling turn signals, things are even easier.
While the DORA helmet could use LED lighting, this is highly impractical for a motorbike helmet. Yet having the "lights" painted on the shell and encase din a nifty coat of lacquer solves this problem, too.
A small rechargeable battery will have little to no impact at all weight-wise and adding a small photovoltaic panel in the helmet construction could provide a constant source of power at least for keeping the battery charged at all times.
Arai, Schuberth, Bell, anybody home?
While the DORA helmet could use LED lighting, this is highly impractical for a motorbike helmet. Yet having the "lights" painted on the shell and encase din a nifty coat of lacquer solves this problem, too.
A small rechargeable battery will have little to no impact at all weight-wise and adding a small photovoltaic panel in the helmet construction could provide a constant source of power at least for keeping the battery charged at all times.
Arai, Schuberth, Bell, anybody home?
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