Hi, my name is Imogen. I'm from South Somerset and I've just graduated from Bristol Uni.
The innovation that caught my eye recently is called the Newton Rider helmet. I do a lot of road cycling and obviously wearing a helmet is so important and so vital, the amount of times I've fallen off and been saved by my helmet. But the Newton Rider helmet is particularly interesting as basically it's made out of a soft padding that hardens on impact.
So with helmets that you have now, if you hit it and it's really, a really hard impact, it can crack and it's made out of plastic. And so this foam is really dense foam a lot of the time. And a lot of the time the helmets are really, really bulky and which is another reason why a lot of people don't choose not to wear helmets, which I think is really so silly, but I understand why.
But this helmet is really thin. It like moulds over your head basically. And yeah, it just really caught my eye because I think it's really important to wear helmets, especially in city cycling and things like that.
And yeah, it's really sleek, could be much more popular than normal helmets. And yes, it's just, and it's also obviously really, really clever, the technology behind it, the fact that it can harden on impact, but it's soft to the touch of like your finger, I think is incredible. So yeah.
