Flip, flap and zoom!
Soon this would become the mantra for two-wheeler riders in the coming years. After all, they will have an all-new option of a head gear, compatible with the latest blue-tooth enabled gadgets. It's light weight, transparent and can be folded and kept in a box as big as a goggle cover.
This GenNext helmet is the latest creation of National Institute of Design (NID)'s Apparel Designing and Merchandising department and is in process of being prototyped by a team led by Somesh Singh.
"This is a product which gives a lot more flexibility, visibility , strength, safety and of course stylen than regular helmets . It is a multi-layered helmet which can be pulled out to give the shape of an helmet. For storing it, the layers can be slipped back to give the helmet a shape of nothing bigger than a goggle and can easily find place in a bag," said Singh.
Helmets are very bulky and storing them is a difficult task. In cities where the driver and the pillion, both have to wear the helmet, the condition is worse. NID's folding helmet is a perfect solution.
Besides storage, the folding helmet has many other benefits. "In a regular helmet, if one falls the impact is on the only surface which is there. But here, since there are various surfaces, the impact of the hit is reduced to a great extent. Other than that, this helmet also allows a lot of air circulation which helps drying the sweat and keeps temperature inside the helmet lower" .
A solution for all types of two-wheeler riders, the idea of a folding helmet was conceived while Singh and his team were working on uniforms of Gujarat police.
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