So, you're lying there on the roadside...
Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute have developed a manufacturing process that injects microcapsules containing malodorous oils into the (bike) helmet itself, causing it to stink when damaged -- alerting you that it's time to replace it...
(h/t The Null Device)
Posted by EBD at June 6, 2010 6:05 PMAnd, as an added bonus, if you're laying there unconscious after an accident, potential rescuers will assume you've been dead for awhile already.
Posted by: Anthony at June 6, 2010 6:12 PMThe process is the punishment.
Posted by: Revnant Dream at June 6, 2010 6:15 PMAt least they had the sense to not make them ooze red dye.
Posted by: ChrisinMB at June 6, 2010 6:35 PMHow about injecting them into elected officials? Oh wait, all politicians are already full of 'malodorous oils.'
Posted by: Doug at June 6, 2010 6:41 PMyes...malodourity....
i've dropped two motorcycles over 40 years of riding(a 74 norton commando and a k100 bmw flying brick)and found after the dust had settled that i'd shit my pants on both occasions)....
so...paint side up pilgrim ....and keep a tight arsehole......
Posted by: john begley at June 6, 2010 6:42 PMoops...make that three times...three errors in timing and judgement....but i only fouled mesself twice...
Posted by: john begley at June 6, 2010 6:44 PMI need that. My woman says I already have a helmet.
Posted by: alex at June 6, 2010 7:05 PMSo does the smell indicate that the helmet is damaged,or that the wearer is brain damaged from buying all this lefty socialist BS?
What next? Depends that don't smell of crap?
Twice in the same hour I read a post about lying in your own filth, I love the interwebz.
Mr. Begley - way too much detail there, but I'm sure there is truth in at least one case of which you speak. I've damn near fouled myself on my bicycle.
Posted by: larben at June 6, 2010 7:28 PM".. the more blows to the head you receive, the less effective the headgear is.."
I'm thinking the rider might want to consider a new hobby that doesn't involve wheels or motion.
Posted by: gord at June 6, 2010 8:08 PMI think I've bought shoes from these guys...
Posted by: wingwalker at June 6, 2010 8:20 PMIts actually a pretty cool idea for structural components. Finding cracks is a difficult thing to do in large structures like airplanes.
But a helmet? Come on.
Posted by: The Phantom at June 6, 2010 8:37 PMno need for ceremony larben old man....i'm just plain old honest john...a cipherous citoyen mindful enough of the proprieties of course but in the age we live in and the milieu we communicate in i find honorifics however mild quite quite unnecessary.
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