Prior to the 1920s, miners wore a soft cap made of cloth or canvas with a leather brim and lamp bracket to hold their light. But in 1919, Edward D. Bullard of San Francisco, California developed the ...

The helmet cleverly integrates a faux-neon style RGB LED strip for internal lighting, but the LED strip would glitch out when the ventilation fan was turned on. The solution after a lot of ...

Eventually, that goal led Ding to create the Lumos Kickstart Helmet ($180), whose LED lights not only increase a cyclist’s visibility but also blink to indicate if she is making a left or right ...

The Princeton Tec EOS 360 Headlamp and Safety Flasher provides hands-free task lighting in low light areas, supporting employee vision and job performance at the worksite. Serving as a helmet ...

However as ski helmets continue to get lighter, better at protecting skiers’ heads, and more packable, they should come along for when things start to get gnarly. Over the past few years companies ...

Gordon Dougal, director of a UK-based company called Virulite, is leading a study that tests whether infrared light, beamed on the head from a special helmet, might boost cell growth in the brain ...