Here’s a new idea in head protection.
When your head hits the road in an accident, your helmet protects your skull from the direct blow and can save you from getting your face scraped-off by the road (if you’ve been wise enough to buy a full-face helmet).
This new helmet technology, as well as protecting your head as above, is supposed to minimize brain injuries caused by violent twisting of your head. This high-speed twisting can cause tearing of blood vessels and nerves as your brain swishes around inside your skull.
They basically cover a regular helmet with a skin-like layer which can slide across the hard shell beneath it (like human skin over bone). This sliding of the outer skin reduces the torque transferreed to the helmet shell and head. It is reported to reduce the twisting by 60% and reduce “intracranial shearing” by 70%.
You can watch a brief video of it here (view in full-screen mode for best effect).
http://www.lazerhelmets.com/en/catalog/motorcycling-1/full-face-2/product/superskin-2–722
and you can read more about the technology behind it here:
http://www.phillipshelmets.com/
I don’t think the Lazer Solano Superskin helmet is available in the U.S. yet though.
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