Hövding

Hövding ("Chieftain" in Swedish) is an airbag bicycle helmet, launched in November 2011. Hövding was invented by Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin in Malmö, Sweden in 2005 as a master thesis for the founders' Master of Industrial Design at the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University in Sweden. Their studies included the comparison of accelerometer data from bicycle crashes against 'typical' cycling. The Hövding contains accelerometers that detect unusual movements which then deploys the airbag if the movement patterns match the profile of a crash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6vding

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