Nothing says freedom in the USA like a nice Three Wheeler Motorcycle.
Vroom Vroom!
Super fun and a perhaps little more stability for your butt.
If the air is clear and the road empty, you can let the wind blow through your hair and the whole world go by.
F*** everything!
Life was made for living. 😉
(Credit Photo: Dossy and Andy Blumenthal)
So happy Friday funday.
We work hard during the week, right.
Today in the office, we replaced some old metal clunker garbage cans with some new clean plastic ones.
The old ones, every time you threw a bottle or anything hard out, it made a crazy loud banging noise disrupting everyone.
I started to joke with my colleagues that the dirty, heavy old cans were more useful as a helmet in case of emergency evacuation of something.
So today the old metal junk cans got a happy face helmet head and a prestigious place next to the office plants.
Everyone had a good hearty laugh!
Honestly, it’s wonderful to be incredibly productive and accomplish a lot for the people, the mission, and all the stakeholders, and at the same time know how to have some fun and make people happy.
Good for morale and good for teamwork! 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Cool innovation out of Sweden, as an alternative to regular bike helmets, there is now the Hovding.
An “invisible” nylon air bag helmet that is worn stylishly around the neck and inflates only when the it detects a pending accident.
The wearable device has a rechargeable accelerometer and gyroscope for sensing accidents, and it can inflate with helium in just a tenth of a second.
It also has a “black box” that records that last 10 seconds of the accident, so that investigators can analyze what happened.
The helmet shell for around the neck comes in a variety of styles and colors, and it costs between $450 and $600 dollars, but is not usable after a single inflatable event.
While many people don’t want to wear crash helmets because they are either unattractive or uncomfortable, this new inflatable helmet provides style and comfort, and most importantly head protection.
The developers see other potential uses for skiing, horseback riding, epileptics, and the elderly.
I wonder about future applications for even more extreme sports and activities like motocycle riding, sky diving, and even race-car driving–people could do the things they enjoy, more naturally, without the clunky helmet, but still have the protection they need.
Also, I believe that the inflatable helmet has potential to be expanded into a more complete body guard package–like an invisible protective shield ready and waiting to be deployed all around a person in case of an accident, attack, or other disaster scenario.
Like the idea of Bubble Boy, who lives in a sterilized dome to protect him because of a compromised immune system, people of all types may one day be able to have a protective bubble that keeps them out of harm’s way.
Technology, such as the smartphone, is moving from mobile to wearable, and high-tech helmets too have the potential for a big lift–stay tuned for yours. 😉
(Source Photo: herewith attribution to Geoffery Kehrig)
I’d like to nominate this product for innovation award of the week.
andyblumenthal 
