Android Motorcycle Helmet/HUD Gains Funding 126
DeviceGuru (1136715) writes Skully Systems has achieved Indiegogo funding for a high-tech Android 4.4 based motorcycle helmet with a head-up display (HUD), GPS navigation, and a 180-degree rearview camera. The Skully AR-1 helmet launched on Indiegogo on Aug. 10 and quickly blasted past its $250,000 flexible funding goal and has already surpassed $900,000 in funding. The helmet runs a heavily modified version of Android 4.4, with both screen size and safety in mind, according to Skully's Tow. 'You should not think of it as being Android as seen in a phone; it doesn't run the same skin,' wrote Tow on the Skully forum page. 'You instead should think of it as a variant of Linux, not Android per se. What counts is the device drivers, graphics rendering for our turn by turn directions and vehicle telemetry, etc. More nerdy things like communication over the I2C bus to the image processing module.' Helmets are available starting at $1,399, with shipments due in May 2015.
Oh man (Score:5, Funny)
a head-up display (HUD), GPS navigation, and a 180-degree rearview camera
Shut up and take my money already!
Helmets are available starting at $1,399
Well, let's not be hasty.
As the man says... (Score:5, Funny)
...if you've got a cheap head, buy a cheap helmet.
Re:Oh man (Score:4, Funny)
why aren't we putting GPS nav and other information projected onto the front window by now.
Because most drivers don't spend much time looking out the windows? They have smart phones FFS.