Would you ride a bike while wearing a helmet made of cardboard? What if its design was inspired by nature — specifically, a woodpecker? You'll have a chance to do just that next year — meaning you ...

Kranium is a bike helmet that is made from the same cardboard used for the boxes you find at the supermarket. This material, along with some clever construction, turns out to be a lot better at ...

Who would have thought that cardboard could protect your noggin? We’re not saying that you should wear a cardboard box on your head the next time you go out for a bike ride, but before long, you could ...

As highlighted by the cardboard bicycle, cardboard can be a surprisingly versatile manufacturing material in the right hands. Further proof of this comes via the Kranium: a bicycle helmet constructed ...

An Indian-origin researcher has designed a new lighter and safer bicycle-helmet entirely made up of cardboard. Surabhi was inspired to create the Kranium following a nasty fall from his bicycle which ...

Yeah, it sounds a little Calvin & Hobbes, but riding around with corrugated cardboard on your head can actually be safer than the plastic and Styrofoam concoctions you get at the bike store. The ...

Just last month, we told you about the Kranium – a prototype bicycle helmet with a core made from cardboard instead of the usual expanded foam. Well, we obviously weren’t the only ones impressed by it ...

Anirudha Surabhi, who recently finished an industrial design degree at London’s Royal College of Art, created a tough waterproof recycleble cardboard bicycle helmet for his final year project. With ...

The way a woodpecker is able to protect itself from long bouts of head banging influences the design of radical new head protection. If ever there were a creature that seemed destined to suffer from ...

Royal College of Art student Anirudha Surabhi is the inventor of a new helmet design we never saw coming: the cardboard helmet. It sounds really funny, but taking a closer look at all the marvelous ...

Would you ride a bike while wearing a helmet made of cardboard? What if its design was inspired by nature — specifically, a woodpecker? You'll... Would you ride a bike while wearing a helmet made of ...