Bike helmets save lives, but if you don’t have one with you, what’s the point? Carrying helmets can be cumbersome, especially when traveling. Renting a bike-share bike in a different city often means riding without a helmet.
What if your helmet condensed down to 10% its full size for easy portability?
That’s the idea behind Ventete, a Swiss-made helmet that inflates in 30 seconds, and provides strong, safe crash protection. Using a patented pneumatic structural system, the helmet uses pressurized air instead of foam for protection. The result is a design that was tested to be even stronger than traditional foam-filled helmets.
Using origami-style folding, the helmet elegantly collapses to store easily in a small pouch. An included powered pump make inflation and deflation fast.
The UK-based company looks to have a winner on their hands, with the first drop of the helmet sold out. More will drop soon at £350.
We love it when an everyday item gets reimagined to be even smarter.
“At its core, though, Ventete is on a mission for convenience. Driven by what it calls a “radical transformation” of the urban mobility landscape – the rise in ride sharing, e-scooters and e-bikes – the brand has developed a helmet it feels meets the needs of today’s city riders.
It’s co-founder, Colin Herperger, says it all started with a single question: “Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could have a helmet that could fold down like a piece of origami and fit in your pocket?” The Ventete aH-1 achieves this by collapsing down to just a tenth of its volume, losing 90% of its bulk to allows users to store the it alongside their laptops and notepads.
As well as promoting efficient use of packing space, the brand is conscious of your time and the aH-1 takes just 30 seconds to inflate back to normal size with the included rechargeable mini pump.”
