Ask a hundred entrepreneurs where they draw inspiration and you'll probably get a hundred different answers, but few are likely to be as unusual as that of Marcus Weller. The CEO of Skully Helmets came up with his idea for a high-tech motorcycle helmet after smashing into a car on a street in Barcelona.
"I was looking at a street sign when the car in front slammed on its brakes and I hit it," he said.
Weller thinks the accident wouldn't have happened if he'd kept his eyes on the road, so he came up with a way to get navigation information projected onto a heads-up display in the rider's helmet. With good directions, the rider wouldn't need to spend as much time looking at road signs.
The helmet's other differentiating feature is a rear-facing camera that collects a 180-degree image of what's behind the bike and feeds it to the same display. There's also a voice control interface.
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