Sensible Erection | Invisible bike helmets

Tuesday, 14 August 2012

quote [ 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. ]

Invisible helmets!

Main link goes to a video explaining the idea, and here's the company site.

~~SFW~~ And something for the haters too! Something for everybody, yay!

[sci&tech] [by spazm@11:21pmGMT] [+7 Good]

Comments

Cakkafracle said @ 11:33pm GMT on 14th Aug [Score:1 Funny]
next up... Con-traption! automatic condoms.

Cakkafracle said @ 11:45pm GMT on 14th Aug
We put the oh! in oh Snap!

Excited Corpse said @ 11:45pm GMT on 14th Aug
I am thinking a better idea would be a balloon that shoots out of a vagina whenever you come anywhere near it.

DarkShadowRavenDragonGrrl69 said @ 11:52pm GMT on 14th Aug
How about a grappling hook that shoots out of your penis whenever you come near a vagina?

GordonGuano said @ 11:57pm GMT on 14th Aug
I'm pretty sure there is some Legend of Zelda slashfic that deals with this.

cool_drool said @ 11:53pm GMT on 14th Aug [Score:1 Insightful]
wow... over $600 for a disposable single use bike helmet... well, not exactly helmet, hollow head shaped air bag.

I don't see where that is better than a traditional helmet.

Mad March Harris said @ 12:00am GMT on 15th Aug [Score:2 Underrated]
Because it apparently deals with the critical design flaw of bike helmets being to silly or gay to be worth wearing or whatever dumb justification people seem to think they have for not wearing them.

EPT said @ 1:54am GMT on 15th Aug
I used to work with an office full of mad cyclists, and while they were all men and had zero problem with wearing helmets (and lycra and rabbitting on about wheel sizes), they did point out that many women put a great deal of effort into doing their hair, which helmets screw up. Thus, helmets are a barrier to entry for cycling for some women.

darkener said @ 5:19am GMT on 15th Aug [Score:1 Insightful]
Wouldn't the wind from riding the bicycle mess up their hair anyway?

EPT said @ 10:34am GMT on 15th Aug
Not everyone rides at breakneck speed.

theolypse said @ 2:42am GMT on 16th Aug
No. Some people are pansies.

Dr.Faustus said @ 7:42pm GMT on 15th Aug
Not everyone has hair.

spazm said @ 12:04am GMT on 15th Aug
What... you don't like the swedish girls or something?

But yeah, it is kinda steep. But, if this catches on I'm sure there will be way cheaper versions once mas production kicks in.

And I think these are protecting a lot better than the usual plastic garbage people put on their heads, which are disposable and single use as well by the way.

foobar said @ 1:43am GMT on 15th Aug [Score:4 Insightful]
All bike helmets are single use. You're supposed to throw them out if you suffer an impact.

mrcucumber said @ 2:08pm GMT on 15th Aug
But most bike helmets don't cost $600.

val said @ 1:55am GMT on 15th Aug [Score:1 Underrated]
It looks like it potentially provides better protection than a regular helmet, which overcoming the problem of a regular helmet fucking your hair.

It would still look damn silly in the summer, however:

$600 is a small price to pay for not having to get stitches to fix your chin, teeth, and nose.

happiest_sadist said @ 4:54am GMT on 15th Aug [Score:1 Insightful]
Also, it looks like it might act as a cervical collar, helping to prevent neck injuries in a crash.
I like it. I think it's cool. But I ain't got no $600, so I guess I'll stick with the old squash bucket.

mechanical contrivance said @ 11:26pm GMT on 15th Aug [Score:1 Funny]
So women have to choose between wearing a helmet and putting a collar on their cervix? Maybe that's why more women don't ride bikes.

theolypse said @ 2:43am GMT on 16th Aug
It's hard to get a woman to take her cervical collar off, eh.

sherlock said @ 5:41am GMT on 15th Aug [Score:2 Underrated]
If you're planning on having multiple serious bicycle accidents, then the expense of $600 is the least of your worries. Having recently been hit by a car, let me tell you, despite being insured, the real cost of this accident is in the tens of thousands of dollars. $600 is nothing.

mrcucumber said @ 2:09pm GMT on 15th Aug
That's what they say about $600 insurance premiums as well.

Anti-fuites said @ 12:07am GMT on 15th Aug [Score:5 Good]
http://www.staggeringbeauty.com

Only shake vigorously if you have your volume turned down.

spazm said @ 12:09am GMT on 15th Aug
This website is offline
No cached version is available

Staggering offline

bruceski said @ 12:31am GMT on 15th Aug
Epilepsy warning.

radioelectric said @ 12:39am GMT on 15th Aug
Yeah, fucking hell man.

EPT said @ 1:50am GMT on 15th Aug [Score:1 Interesting]
Speaking as someone who spent four years doing tests for epilepsy, the flashing isn't enough to set off a seizure except in particular kinds of epilepsy, and even then, such a short exposure isn't going to set off a seizure except in really rare cases ('you'll know if this applies to you' sort of cases).

Incidentally, from that history, I find strobe lights really relaxing. Y'see, the strobe light part of the test came at the end of the study, which may have been quite draining if you've had a combative patient. The strobe light essentially meant "ah, we're on the finishing stretch now"...

bruceski said @ 3:19am GMT on 15th Aug
Fair enough. "Holy fuck my eyes! You said there was gonna be noise!" Warning.

discoLemonade said @ 5:51am GMT on 15th Aug
well, now i have something to show my brother in law
we like to play this little game, or at least i do, called SUPRISE SEIZURE.

Naruki said @ 12:21am GMT on 15th Aug [Score:3]
tl;dw : jump to minute 3 to see the damn things.

user420 said @ 12:58am GMT on 15th Aug [Score:1 Funny]
It's a collar that you wear around your neck that deploys an airbag when you crash.

There, now you don't even have to watch it.

cb361 said @ 8:47pm GMT on 15th Aug
Thanks to you I've gotten back those three minutes of my life.

And wasted them again writing this comment.

Naruki said @ 3:37am GMT on 16th Aug
Man, takes you forever to write two lines.

cb361 said @ 3:34pm GMT on 16th Aug [Score:1 Informative]
I was including the time it took to read your reply.

arrowhen said @ 5:55pm GMT on 16th Aug [Score:1 Funny]
He has to write with a stick in his mouth, because he didn't wear a helmet.

Galley said @ 12:32am GMT on 15th Aug [Score:2 Underrated]
Fucking hipsters...

DarkShadowRavenDragonGrrl69 said @ 12:35am GMT on 15th Aug
I really hope the translation's wonky, because otherwise there's a lot of stupid coming out of their mouths.

user420 said @ 1:01am GMT on 15th Aug
But bicycles are the future n stuff.

Peak Oil said @ 1:03am GMT on 15th Aug
Indeed.

azazel said @ 1:19pm GMT on 15th Aug
It's not.

azazel said @ 1:22pm GMT on 15th Aug
To specify: the translation might gloss over certain lines (the sentence before "Put a rooster in there and there will be order" for example, is shortened a bit), but there's nothing wrong with the subtitles.

lalanda said @ 12:48am GMT on 15th Aug
Waste of their time and mine.

gunthar said @ 1:07am GMT on 15th Aug

DarkShadowRavenDragonGrrl69 said @ 1:26am GMT on 15th Aug [Score:5 Underrated]
http://hothipstergirls.tumblr.com/post/28741047821/dang-thighs-on-this-submission-kinda-take-away

Are you mad? Those hips and thighs look absolutetly delicious.

Supreme_Coconut said @ 2:03am GMT on 15th Aug
Was thinking the same thing. Those thighs don't take away. They add. The guy running that site should be dragged out in to the street and set on fire. Well, ok, just that for being a hipster. For being an asshat, I'd say extinguish him and then spritz him with lemon juice from a spray bottle.

theRed said @ 2:20am GMT on 15th Aug
200%
concur!!
Curves!!!

Mr. Langosta said @ 3:25am GMT on 15th Aug
holee shit

I didn't know they made 'em like that. Wow. One of a kind.

captainstubing said @ 12:26pm GMT on 16th Aug
Indeed. Just looking at that nearly made me crash the yoghurt truck.

Did we ever get a name for that one years ago? I don't have the links but the pics are stashed away on a drive somewhere.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 8:00am GMT on 15th Aug
Is that Invader Zim underwear?

Supreme_Coconut said @ 2:44pm GMT on 15th Aug
I think that's the pig from Drawn Together.

azazel said @ 1:12pm GMT on 15th Aug
Well clearly he's a retard.

arrowhen said @ 12:01am GMT on 16th Aug [Score:1 Insightful]
They "take away from the girls (sic) up top a bit" in that it's hard to tear your eyes away from them long enough to look up at the top half of the image.

EPT said @ 2:05am GMT on 15th Aug
Erg. It requires batteries. I can't see where this could go wrong.

Also, what's the point of not enveloping the face with an airbag solution? Does the bag not deflate?

Also, what happens when people with long hair inevitably pull it out over the collar? 'looking uncool' is a problem that regular helmets have, and this collar doesn't really solve it with it's giant bulkiness. Not pulling it out over the collar is going to mean the collar is pulling on the hair, making it uncomfortable.

Also, I wish the video was more involved in the technical parts of the product, rather than a "look, girls can do R&D too!".

I think it's a product with a future, but it's not a game-changer, and certainly isn't the thing that will replace cars with bikes.

EPT said @ 2:09am GMT on 15th Aug
hrm, the long hair thing seems to be in the video with one of the founders. still, a more technical video rather than 'girls are people too!' would have been nice.

anagramophone said @ 2:27am GMT on 15th Aug

zsander said @ 4:47am GMT on 15th Aug [Score:1 Insightful]
I don't know how well the following can be applied to bicycles, but for motorcycle riders, about 2/3 to 3/4 of head impact injuries fall within the forehead to chin area (which is why I wince every time I see someone riding without a full-face lid). The inflatable helmet's a neat touch a la Snow Crash, but it doesn't protect the forward quarter of the head/face, and won't protect against flying objects since its deployment's based on the rider taking a spill instead.

This idea might be great as an accessory to other (motorcycle) riding gear, though, to protect cervical area, spine, and hard/joint areas on the body that would otherwise be injured (even under leather) if a rider went high-siding.

granitewitch said @ 4:12pm GMT on 15th Aug

Right. I'm an engineer, and I recognize calculus when I see it, but... what the hell are those equations representing? They make no sense to me. Have I really forgotten that much?

granitewitch said @ 4:13pm GMT on 15th Aug
Grrr. Won't let me hotlink... http://hothipstergirls.tumblr.com/image/10085305554

granitewitch said @ 4:13pm GMT on 15th Aug [Score:1 Informative]

benjamander said @ 8:32pm GMT on 15th Aug
I...

I didn't notice the breasts at first...

cb361 said @ 8:45pm GMT on 15th Aug
And you call yourself an SEer.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 11:16pm GMT on 15th Aug
The one in the center is clearly from vector calculus; I think it might be a variant of Green's Theorem or Stokes' Theorem or something like that.

I think the use of the nipple as the graph origin is cute.

ckfahrenheit said @ 4:52pm GMT on 15th Aug
I would like invisible bikes

even invisible chairs

Hactar said @ 11:32pm GMT on 15th Aug [Score:1 Interesting]
From Snow Crash:

At the same time, she jerks the manual release on her cervical collar and goes into full Michelin Man mode as tiny gas cartridges detonate in several strategic locations around her bod. The biggest one goes off like an M-80 at the nape of her neck, unfurling the coverall's collar into a cylindrical gasbag that shoots straight up and encases her entire head. Other airbags go off around her torso and pelvis, paying lots of attention to that spinal column.

coffeejoejava said @ 12:10am GMT on 16th Aug [Score:1 Informative]
I personally believe that is one hell of a great idea. I would wear one. I hate those stupid looking helmets. I feel,like a dork when I wear one.

b said @ 3:34am GMT on 16th Aug
Ok, first of all, I finally have my own computers, again after three months, plus an internet connection. Holy shit, it's been too long. Browsing SE via iPhone is really not that awesome.

Second, I didn't watch this video til now and I was assuming this was a stupid idea, and parts of it are, but overall, I think this is kind of awesome. If they weren't $600, I'd get one.

However, as others have noted, this is not necessarily a great summer item. Not that helmet don't overheat your head. Then again, my helmet has loads of vents.

Cool, idea. I like it. I'd love to be able to go helmetless or be wearing a hat instead of a helmet. Though, truth be told, I only wear my helmet one day a week when I'm bike messengering.