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Virginia Tech Updates Its Star Rating System Because Helmets Are Getting Safer
Earlier this month, the Virginia Tech Helmet Lab released a memorandum explaining an update to its STAR rating score thresholds for bicycle and football helmets. Turns out, helmets are getting safer, and the helmet test team felt “the 5-star label had become diluted.” So, they felt this threshold...Read more -
Researchers develop bicycle helmet made from recyclable PLA
Design, lifestyle, and functionality are central purchasing criteria for sporting goods and accessories. For this booming market, many products are imported from Asia to Europe, which are not environmentally sustainable. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT have dev...Read more -
Virginia Tech to study, rate construction helmets
Dive Brief: Researchers at Virginia Tech are looking for ways to better protect noggins on the jobsite. After nearly two decades of studying and providing safety ratings of athletic helmets, the Blacksburg, Virginia, university’s Helmet Lab will begin developing a grading system for construction...Read more -
EU Battery Regulation is coming
The new EU Battery Regulation will gradually impose expanded and, partly new, requirements on battery manufacturers, importers, distributors, and “service providers.” The legislation applies to all batteries, without exception. Legislative requirements vary according to battery type and differ de...Read more -
On the importance of helmets
In a motorcycle accident, the more serious is the head injury, but the fatal injury is not the first impact on the head, but the second violent impact between the brain tissue and the skull, and the brain tissue will be squeezed or torn rupture, or bleeding in the brain, causing permanent damage....Read more -
Introduction to the function, principle and function of bicycle helmet
Since the invention of bicycles, people are better means of transportation and leisure, especially after cycling has become a competitive sport, people love it even more. However, as a sport with speed finals, safety has become an important issue. So people thought of helmets. The advent of bicyc...Read more -
The 30th China International Bicycle Exhibition in 2021
rom May 5th to 8th, 2021, the 30th China International Bicycle Exhibition (hereinafter referred to as the “China Exhibition”) with the theme of “internal and external development, cooperation and win-win” will be held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center (Pudong)....Read more
