Cardboard Helmets
When Anirudha Rao found that expanded polystyrene helmets only protect the users’ heads 16 percent of the time during a crash as polystyrene does little to absorb impact energy, the designer offered us a much effective alternative of cycling protections: ‘Kranium’.
 Exhibited during London Design Week 2010 at Designersblock, the new helmet is made from cardboard and features several ribs that will flex and de-flex during a crash to absorb the energy of impact. When tested against British (EN 1078) standards at the imperial college, ‘Kranium’ was found to have the ability of absorbing four times the amount of impact energy as that of regular helmets. And we bet that exciting news will surely make ‘Kranium’ the most popular one on the helmet market.
Designer: Anirudha Rao
October 7th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
This is cool, but It needs some kind of sweat proof liner. After 6 months of daily use, I need to replace the spongey liners in my helmet because they start to disintegrate. The cardboard would certainly break down much more quickly from sweat and rain.
October 8th, 2010 at 3:47 am
Excellent! Now, what have you done for water proofing?