Smart helmet points out the potholes and enables phone calls

News.com reports on Ted Selker's newest Smart Helmet, which can play music when hooked up with an iPod, record speech through built-in microphones, and GPS warns the wearer of hazards on a given route.

It also can detect important sounds like a fire siren to mute music when necessary. It has a Motorola cell phone with Bluetooth installed so a bicyclist can talk on the phone, hands-free

... The helmet exemplifies Selker's work on gizmos that mediate communication between people and the environment and create a kind of virtual city that enhances the ones we live in. He's working on hundreds of other projects that meld intelligent design with everyday objects or industrial ones."

emily | 6:20 PM | Technology |
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