Three years ago, David Hall's life was turned upside down. The engineering student's sister was hit by a car while riding her bike in Philadelphia. While his sister laid in a coma, Hall and his family ...

An Iron Man helmet build becomes a deep technical experiment in roto casting, silicone mold making, and composite ...

Youngstown, Ohio was abuzz with entrepreneurial energy in mid-November as innovators from around the world gathered for the official kickoff of the NFL Helmet Challenge, a $3 million innovation ...

Watching Ryan Smith at work is enough to trigger a migraine. At a local startup that aims to build a better football helmet, Smith and his colleagues spend their days strapping prototypes onto dummy ...

Since the early 1990s, helmet design hasn’t changed much: it’s basically expanded polystyrene foam (EPS) stuffed inside a polycarbonate shell, designed to withstand a single major impact. But that’s ...

As NFL and college football training camps begin preparing players for their upcoming 2010 seasons, the focus on the long-term damage of concussions is greater than ever. One industrial designer ...

[Nixie Guy] has hit all of important design elements in a single motorcycle helmet-cam project which packs in so much that the build log spans three posts. These cameras need to stand up to the ...

Youngstown, Ohio was abuzz with entrepreneurial energy in mid-November as innovators from around the world gathered for the official kickoff of the NFL Helmet Challenge, a $3 million innovation ...

Vicis engineering technician Steven Reddell positions the Vicis football helmet to be hit by the pendulum at the company's smash lab in Seattle. (Steve Ringman/Seattle Times/TNS) Vicis engineering ...