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Skully Motorcycle Helmet Has Heads-Up Display and

Rearview Camera 配備抬頭顯示器與後視相機的Skully機車頭盔

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Bluetooth Helmets

Are you interested in wearing a smart helmet while riding a motorcycle?

How about a heads-up display on the visor of your helmet plus Bluetooth?

How about this helmet?

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/transportation/safety/skully-motorcycle-helmet

I learned one very simple rule in my motorcycle safety course: keep your eyes and your head pointing toward the place you want to go. It sounds straightforward. But the truth is, you have to break this rule all the time. You check your gas gauge; you look over your shoulder before changing lanes; you crane your neck to see a road sign. During moments that I take no pride in, I have even broken this rule by stuffing my cellphone up into my helmet to answer an emergency call.

Riders who wear the new, digitally

enhanced, Skully AR-1 helmet —

which the company is calling "the

world's smartest motorcycle helmet" —

may never have to break this cardinal

rule ever again. The design pushes all

the information a rider needs onto a

heads-up display right in the visor.

The most useful feature is provided by a wide-angle camera housed in the back of the helmet that captures a near 180-degree image of the road behind the rider, including blind spots on either side. Riders see this as a transparent display floating just off the center of the field. (The display is designed to focus at infinity so that it stays clear no matter where riders are looking and whether or not they wear glasses.)

The helmet has also built-in GPS

and a turn-by-turn navigation

system(全程語音導航系統). And when connected

to your smartphone via Bluetooth, you can

take calls and play music, both of which are

welcome features to the long-distance rider.

But for now, the Skully AR-1 only exists as a prototype. The company that wants to mass produce it has launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise the funds it needs to bring the helmet to market. The campaign is going extremely well, and contributions now total more than $1 million, or four times the initial fundraising goal. To receive a helmet as a perk, backers have to contribute a minimum of $1,399, with shipping expected to begin next May.

But despite its sleek design and cool features, the helmet still needs to address one crucial question, at least in the opinion of this writer (and rider): Will it excel (擅於) in protecting a rider's head in the event of a crash? At this point, the designers promise to provide the certification of safety required by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

But this is really just the bare minimum that riders look for when buying a helmet. The gold standard in helmet certification comes from a private non-profit research group called the Snell Memorial Foundation. Most riders (including myself) want to see a Snell sticker on their helmets. There has been no word yet on whether the Skully AR-1 will achieve this level of certification.

Another question is whether the helmet's display and

other digital functionalities could become a

distraction for some riders—and, in this case, lead to

accidents, instead of preventing them. The designers

seem to want to keep the interface safe and simple.

But at the same time they have mentioned letting

some users access a software development kit to

build new applications. Which is to say this helmet

could basically develop into a giant, polycarbonate

(聚碳酸酯) smartphone fortress for your head.

Just remember to keep your eyes and your head

pointing toward where you want to go.

Questions for brainstorming

Please try to answer the following questions:

1. What is the difference between a motorcycle and scooter?

2. Do you think the term “digital helmet” is appropriate for the Skully motorcycle helmet?

3. What kind of power supply does a smart phone require?

4. Do you think the smart helmet will become popular in the future?

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