Cone-heads on the shelf

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The cone-head helmet has hit store shelves in the United States and Europe.

The helmet, invented by Brisbane, Australia, physicist Don Morgan, uses cones of energy-absorbing material to better disperse the shock of impact.

CMG ran a story about the cone-head helmet back in 2007. Back then, Morgan didn’t know if he’d be able to find acceptance for his idea. Now, he has — and it’s on store shelves in the U.S. and Europe, and has won awards at Munich’s ISPO show and Indianapolis’s dealer show.

The helmet is for motocross and dirt-bike riders and is sold under the Kali Protectives brand.

See www.coneheadhelmets.com.au for more.

1 COMMENT

  1. It would be sweet without the outer shell. Slight differences in the cones would allow the production of high-speed whistling musical chords as one changed the angle of one’s head

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