With all these awesome electric motorcycles sprouting up everywhere, you’re gonna need a sweet looking helmet to go with your new bike. French designer Jérôme Coste has shown interest in crash helmet design since surviving his sixth cranial fracture. Jesus, you’d think you’d quit around three or four cranial fractures, but no, Coste just keeps on biking.

Made from carbon fiber and detailed with chrome-plated trim, these helmets are directly inspired by science-fiction films and as a result, if you fall from a flying car, you’ll be thankful you had one of these stylish cranial casings on your head. Otherwise you’re getting fucked up.

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Horseback riding can be a dangerous hobby. One slip and your brain could be splattered over different area codes. No worries though, because scientists at the Royal Institute of Technology and Karolinska Institute have development a helmet that is said to reduce head and brain trauma due to spills by 40%. The helmet was inspired by nature to create the Multi-directional Impact Protection System or MIPS for short.

Simulating the brain’s own protection system, MIPS is based on a dual-layer structure that releases and compensates the rotation of the brain in the event of sudden impact.  This means you’re less likely to have your head pop off due to an awful bail. Unfortunately for bikers, this helmet only comes in a jockey design, for now.

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Sebastian Errazuriz is a designer who has made some really interesting product ideas, focusing on integrating humor and thought to everyday objects. Take for example, the Chick Head Lamp, which depicts a decapitated birdy with a light for a head. We hope it doesn’t still run around like stories we’ve heard.

His other designs include a outfit made from chopped up teddy bears, a wheelchair swing, and a helmet with a smiley face. Sure it doesn’t sound like much, but just check out the pictures. Would you rock that teddy bear outfit on a date? I sure as hell would. Which might explain why dating has been so unsuccessful for me. (more…)

Everyone knows that bike helmets are made to protect your head in case you were to take a fall off of your two-wheeled monster. This Skull Helmet takes the “skull” part literally, designed to look like an actual scary black skull.

We hate when we hop for a ride on our bike and our neighbors dogs take chase after us, maybe thinking we are some weird sort of bike running prey. The Skull Helmet should scare the hell out of the pets in question, while keeping you safe in the process. The helmet even has a Michael Jackson-esque hollow nose hole, so you can still breathe freely. — Andrew Dobrow

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Ever wondered how your pet dog views the world? One Eye Ball by Hung-Chih Pen attempts to recreate the dog perspective for us bipedal mammals. The One Eye Ball concept works by mounting eyeglasses-sized LCD displays in the helmet, which are connected a a camera at the end of a tube.

The camera sits around the same height as a normal dog, giving the human the experience of a lifetime. When uses first wear the helmet, they feel dizziness, as all of their nerves readjust to the new point of view. — Andrew Dobrow

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