Well our favorite goofball website has come up with a gem. Vain Euro cyclists dont want to mess up their hair while riding a bike sooo they came up with an Airbag For Your Head! Heres the article from Asylum:
Certain members of Team Asylum have, shall we say, a lot of hair. So much hair it makes them look a little bit like Sideshow Bob. True story. Because of this, wearing helmets while cycling is difficult because none of the buggers really fit properly.
So as cycling is a somewhat dangerous hobby, recently we’ve been forgoing our pedalling passion purely to protect our heads from getting cracked on the side of a busy London street. Boo.
But wait! Here come our saviours in the form of Swedish desginers Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin, who’ve created what’s known as “The Hövding” – essentially a waterproof collar that expands into an airbag helmet. When you’re struck by a hefty force, that is. Not, say, when you hit a button on the side. That would be weird. Weirder, anyway.
The Hövding has been around in prototype form since last year, but now that they’ve started winning awards for it, we expect the worldwide interest to catapult the airbag helmet into the mainstream.
Amazing, the award they won most recently was the “Index: Award” — the world’s largest monetary prize for design, giving Anna and Terese €100,000 (Approx: £87,500) for all their hard work.
To give you a taste of how the thing works, here’s a video they uploaded that shows the Hövding in action, followed up with some footage of the awards ceremony itself. Just so you know, they have wicked hair. Wicked big hair, in fact.
Oh, and for more details, check out their website here. You can even order your own. How nice.
The helmet (on a crash test dummy) in action:
