So, yesterday we asked you to suggest what you would like to see on a helmet, following the emergence of the Livall Bling, the helmet with everything thrown at it.
From the sensible to the surreal, you came back with some pretty good suggestions.
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Of course, being cyclists, the provision of tea and cake was a recurring theme
On Facebook Andrew Poole suggested a teasmaid, while Chris Gerhard on Twitter went for an entire oven.
@roadcc an oven, for cooking cakes so you never run out of cakes.
— Chris Gerhard (@chrisgerhard) August 11, 2015
York Cycle Chic suggested a Flapjack Shoot. We're not sure what that is, but if it involves flapjack, it's OK with us
@roadcc a flapjack shoot
— YorkCycleChic (@YorkCycleChic) August 11, 2015
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We had the more practical solutions
On Facebook Sean Martin suggested a HUD so Froomey doesn't have to stare so hard at his stem. Very thoughtful, Sean.
While Mad Munk mentioned Monkey Mirrors (try saying that ten times fast)
This one only works if you're a cop, but thanks Police Constable Matthew Baker:
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On Twitter, some replies were highly pragmatic
Socks were all that Ned Boulting and Stop Killing Cyclists' Nicola Branch wanted.
@roadcc socks
— Ned Boulting (@nedboulting) August 11, 2015
@roadcc washed socks, so that they can dry in the wind…
— One Woman Two Wheels (@1woman2wheels) August 11, 2015
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The sci-fi references were also strong with this one:
Flip-down night vision goggles for riding along country lanes, as suggested by Clive Davies
Headwind neutraliser, anyone? (Thanks Dafydd Pritchard for that)
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Then there were suggestions of the violent kind
A heat-seeking smack in the mouth launcher takes rather an angry tone, and is potentially problematic in application, but thanks Graham L Simmons
While Richard Frost, rather enigmatically, proposed a rocket launcher, size 9 (we hope you've been doing your ab crunches to stabilise that one when it goes off, Frost)
Proximity-activated defence came high on the wish list
@roadcc force field generator to protect me from cars.
— Matt L (@Flatfooted591) August 11, 2015
And no list would be complete without a Star Wars reference
@gazza_d @roadcc A proximity activated lighsaber
— Gary James (@Tradescant) August 11, 2015
Though, again, some were slightly disproportionate
@roadcc Proximity-activated front & rear cameras, with laser guidance for the mini-hellfire missiles
— William (@WilliamNB) August 11, 2015
But our all-time favourite had to be the sharks with frickin' laser beams, as suggested by Christian Dransfield on Facebook
Because when isn't a shark appropriate?
3 thoughts on “We asked: what would you put on a helmet? And you delivered.”
Remote Tyre stinger to shoot
Remote Tyre stinger to shoot out on junctions when we can see cars are not going to stop.
In the 1980s I came up with a
In the 1980s I came up with a device that would “kill” the engine control units in then-modern cars, causing them to stop.
It would have been colossally unwieldy (and that’s without the 2 kWh battery pack) and almost certainly equally colossally illegal. Despite this, it remained alive in my fantasies as a “car-killing ray gun”.
Since then I have read of proposals for an EMP weapon (with the same purpose) that would “kill” modern car engine computers.
Can someone miniaturise one of these and mount it on a helmet? Or a handlebar?
It would be enough to send a
It would be enough to send a carefully crafted radio signal. In modern cars, all electronics – including the radio/sound system, engine and brake control – are on the same bus (communication system), so you should be able to activate the brakes and switch off the engine remotely via the car’s radio.
Something similar has been done: http://uk.businessinsider.com/researchers-show-the-ability-to-remotely-hack-and-control-a-car-2015-7?r=US&IR=T
The only challenge is to find similar vulnerabilities for other manufacturers, then we could just control the cars around us.