A Japanese company is developing a prototype cycling helmet that uses the Apple iPhone to connect to a heads-up display, to show you where to go as you're biking around town.
Leaving aside questions of safety and fashion, this is perhaps one of the coolest iPhone mods we have yet seen.
The display is a Scalar T3-A which shows your iPhone mapping data in the corner of your eye.
Retractable HUD
The HUD is retractable and your iPhone is mounted on to the top of the helmet. No protection for the phone has yet been developed, so the guys testing out this prototype better hope they don't get run over in the rush hour traffic!
Note that the key word above is 'prototype' – no word as yet on whether or not such a device will ever see commercial release.
However, if it doesn't, then we plan to obtain the design plans from the developer and make one ourselves in the garage.
Don't believe us? Watch this.
Via Slashgear
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castaway666
September 25th 2009
2. lol, thinking the same thing, some yobbo in a white van, just yoiks it out of the helmet at a red light.
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madjedi
September 25th 2009
1. How long will it take before someone just grabs the iphone off you head and runs off!!??
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