This tech is already commercially and widely available. The most popular implementation is called MIPS, or the Multi-directional Impact Protection System, and is present in numerous helmet brands and models.
Funny to see a 15+ year old technology rediscovered! The good news is that it really works, and more competition could be beneficial. Bad news is that mips is now super mainstream and really cheap to buy.
As a former non-helmet wearer (stupidity of youth and vanity), I can attest to a styrofoam helmet saving my life and other debilitating morbidity 🤕The company back then even reimbursed the cost when i sent it back which had some ANSI certification if that meant anything. After that experience, i think helmets along with other safety equipment like goggles are sorely underappreciated. Now with all the research into traumatic brain injury and its effects, the work of Professor Knight and his team on injury protection is all the more relevant and potentially game changing considering those injured and their families, plus healthcare costs.
Another important part of simply making sure your helmet is properly adjusted. Parents! Make sure your kid is wearing it properly. I see people with a helmet on and no buckle or the chin strap buckled but hanging 2 inches down. On impact these helmets will come flying off and be useless or even a hazard around your neck. There is also usually an adjustment in the back to make sure it hugs your skull. Again this is important to keep the helmet ON your head and absorb the impact.
The point is force reduction, which means a slowing of energy transfer. In that sense, less resistance over a greater distance to absorb the impact is better. But you don't have a long distance to let the helmet spin, so any energy left at the end of its range of motion gets transferred to the head/neck. More resistance means more energy is dissipated over the same distance, and less will be put into your skill after the helmet cannot move further. All that to say, "I don't know." 🤔 Like most things, it depends. In this case it depends on how much energy there is to dissipate, how far the device can move, and the maximum tolerable force that your brain can take.
Bob is an angel :) However such helmets, that have an inner rotating layer, exists since many years. At least in Europe. I bought them for ski and cycling. But I never understood the hard foam in them, a softer thick foam he uses is plainly a better thing!
What your bike helmet is missing is protected infrastructure. Then you don't need a helmet. There are more head injuries in cars than bikes per mile travelled but for some reason drivers don't "need" helmets.
Thought this was going to be about MIPS, surprised it wasnt even mentioned.
The tech explained is basically MIPS.
This tech is already commercially and widely available. The most popular implementation is called MIPS, or the Multi-directional Impact Protection System, and is present in numerous helmet brands and models.
Yeah, this is what I came down to the comments to say.
It's like Mips with a Rheon layer
How is Brainguard different from MIPS?
Build protected bike lanes as is standard in Europe. Designs cities for people, for walking and biking, instead of for cars.
Funny to see a 15+ year old technology rediscovered! The good news is that it really works, and more competition could be beneficial. Bad news is that mips is now super mainstream and really cheap to buy.
I didn't want to pay extra for MIPS when I bought a new helmet (the old one cracked when I fell off my bike), but I guess that was a mistake.
it was. Old ordinary helmets are truly stone age, way worse than what is possible and necessary.
still way better than no helmet! :)
I have 2 helmets and both have MIPS.
As a former non-helmet wearer (stupidity of youth and vanity), I can attest to a styrofoam helmet saving my life and other debilitating morbidity 🤕The company back then even reimbursed the cost when i sent it back which had some ANSI certification if that meant anything. After that experience, i think helmets along with other safety equipment like goggles are sorely underappreciated. Now with all the research into traumatic brain injury and its effects, the work of Professor Knight and his team on injury protection is all the more relevant and potentially game changing considering those injured and their families, plus healthcare costs.
So you did not even bother doing a basic research on what modern helmets are actually like and what technologies they implement.
Another important part of simply making sure your helmet is properly adjusted. Parents! Make sure your kid is wearing it properly. I see people with a helmet on and no buckle or the chin strap buckled but hanging 2 inches down. On impact these helmets will come flying off and be useless or even a hazard around your neck. There is also usually an adjustment in the back to make sure it hugs your skull. Again this is important to keep the helmet ON your head and absorb the impact.
Interesting. Would it help or hinder to have the outer helmet move with more or less resistance?
The point is force reduction, which means a slowing of energy transfer. In that sense, less resistance over a greater distance to absorb the impact is better. But you don't have a long distance to let the helmet spin, so any energy left at the end of its range of motion gets transferred to the head/neck. More resistance means more energy is dissipated over the same distance, and less will be put into your skill after the helmet cannot move further.
All that to say, "I don't know." 🤔 Like most things, it depends. In this case it depends on how much energy there is to dissipate, how far the device can move, and the maximum tolerable force that your brain can take.
woo that's amazing, just one thing the rotating thing does it readjust itself?
isn't this mips?
Bob is an angel :)
However such helmets, that have an inner rotating layer, exists since many years. At least in Europe. I bought them for ski and cycling.
But I never understood the hard foam in them, a softer thick foam he uses is plainly a better thing!
Protection against nukes
So its basically MIPS but even worse wow
more like Mips with Rheon foam
Is this a commercial?
surprised like most that this was not about, nor even mention MIPS
isnt this a common tech for helmets? i remember even medieval bascinets had space to absorb impacts.
GIRO Aries Spherical same idea
I hate the "I'm not a bike ride but..." statements.
Without a full face helmet you're kidding yourself. Go watch bike crash compilations...lots of face impacts.
What your bike helmet is missing is protected infrastructure. Then you don't need a helmet. There are more head injuries in cars than bikes per mile travelled but for some reason drivers don't "need" helmets.
you can still just fall
@@nightspicer if you just fall you wouldn't crack your skull.
@@swancrunch if you hit the curb you just might