We first covered the Hövding airbag collar in 2010 when it was originally shown off to the world by its inventors, industrial designers Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin. At the time it was available to ...

Airbags have been cushioning drivers in accidents since the 1980’s and are now standard equipment on most new cars sold around the world. With cyclists and motorcyclists being much more vulnerable on ...

A Swedish company has borrowed an important safety feature from the automobile industry and made it available to cyclists. Hövding is the world’s first helmet that features a built in airbag to ...

The gadget’s main lure is that it rids you of the embarrassment of a bike helmet, but tests have also shown it to be remarkably effective. If we have any chance at weaning ourselves off of the dead ...

There’s just something about the Hövding inflatable bike helmet that seems too fantastical to be true. Its core pitch—of replacing your bike helmet with a fanny pack that wraps around your neck, ...

One of the first things you notice about Amsterdam are the bikes. They’re everywhere: peppering the roads, overflowing from bike racks and, regularly, clogging up the canals. For someone who has grown ...

When an accident is caused by a car, the airbag absorbs the shock but in the case of a bicycle it does not work so. A bicycle accident happens when the accident happens once the living body is thrown ...

Helmets save lives at the “expense” of what some misguided cyclists think of as “looking cool”. They’re also bulky, and a pain to schlep once the ride is over. Two female Swedish design students spent ...