MIT students invent bike helmet vending machine

MIT students invent bike helmet vending machine | Grist

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MIT students invent bike helmet vending machine

Bikeshares are a really smart idea, so participants obviously know how to use their brains — but they apparently don’t know how to protect them. Helmet use on bikeshare bikes is pretty abysmal — data from Boston’s bikeshare program show that only 30 percent of users wear a helmet. So a group of adorable MIT undergraduates has invented HelmetHub, a vending machine that dispenses bike helmets for $8 a pop. That’s a small price to pay to keep your cranium intact. The stand-alone HelmetHub units can each hold 12 helmets, which can be dispensed one or more at a time. Once you’re done with your bikeshare ride, you can return the helmet at another HelmetHub location, which you will be capable of doing because you will not have cracked your head open like an egg. Don’t go thinking this is all pie-in-the-sky student stuff, just because they’re undergrads. The team is being super-pr...

Full article: http://grist.org/list/helmethub/

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@casinobicycles » 17 Mar '12, 9pm
Bike helmets from a vending machine? Yes, it's true. [link]
@bettybike » 16 Mar '12, 6pm
In Beta-test this summer in Boston: MIT students invent bike helmet vending machine [link] via @grist
@WatertownPatch » 15 Mar '12, 4pm
RT @Jonna_Rae: MIT undergraduates has invented HelmetHub, a vending machine that dispenses bike helmets [link] (via @grist cc @hubway)
@Jonna_Rae » 15 Mar '12, 4pm
MIT undergraduates has invented HelmetHub, a vending machine that dispenses bike helmets [link] (via @grist cc @hubway)
@claireannewalsh » 09 Mar '12, 2pm
@MayorOfLondon come on Boris - I want to see you down potters field wearing one of these babies! #useyourhead [link]
@amber_parsons » 06 Mar '12, 5pm
Yes! Anything to encourage safe cycling - especially in London... RT Do you think a scheme like this would be useful? [link]
@JamesKershawE2B » 06 Mar '12, 5pm
RT @futerra: Helmet use on Boris Bikes is low in London. Do you think a scheme like this would be useful? [link] via @grist
@futerra » 06 Mar '12, 5pm
Helmet use on Boris Bikes is low in London. Do you think a scheme like this would be useful? [link] via @grist
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RT @IUBikes: Well, this is awesome. MIT students invent bike helmet vending machine - helmets cost only $8 apiece [link]
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@themattygroves » 04 Mar '12, 7pm
@GreenAngelsBike MIT students invent bike helmet vending machine [link] via @grist
@Velo_City_NYC » 04 Mar '12, 5pm
Just in time for Bike Share in NYC! [link]
@bike_theWorld » 03 Mar '12, 5pm
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@ask_jeaves » 03 Mar '12, 4pm
Imagine the benefits if more people profited from services like these that benefit the health of the community. [link]
@clulisa » 03 Mar '12, 3pm
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@abergrenmiller » 03 Mar '12, 6am
SB needs one of these. Plus an answer to the age-old question: how do we make bike helmets = cool? via @grist #MIT [link]
@polarbarrister » 03 Mar '12, 5am
@Zoe_MM Fabulous! T.O. needs these by the Bixi stations. [link]
@grist » 03 Mar '12, 4am
Students invent bike helmet vending machine, $8 a pop: [link] A small price to pay to keep your cranium intact.
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@emilyfmeisler » 02 Mar '12, 11pm
“ MIT undergraduates invented a vending machine that dispenses bike helmets for $8 a pop: [link]” we need this in Minneapolis!
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Hey #bikers! get excited about the new vending machine that pops-out helmets [link] It's gotta run on #solar via @grist
@iMatthew_ » 02 Mar '12, 10pm
Gr8 for Hubway bikeshare! RT @grist: MIT undergraduates invented vending machine that dispenses bike helmets, $8 a pop: [link]
@VicarCRC » 02 Mar '12, 10pm
Saw this at #Boston #Bikes Report Tuesday night - the right kind of #innovation! MIT bike helmet vending machine | [link]
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MIT undergraduates invented a vending machine that dispenses bike helmets for $8 a pop: [link]
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@mbadso » 02 Mar '12, 8pm
Now this is putting your education to good use! [link]
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MIT students invent bike helmet vending machine --these would be perfect next to @niceridemn stations! #northeastride [link]
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