The project relies on cheap, commonly available LED strip lights ... thus it made sense to fit helmet lights rather then more typical bike lights to make them more visible to surrounding traffic.

but [George’s] project is a homemade LED helmet that takes no shortcuts and packs the visor full of hundreds of individual lights. He started with a prototype that uses a PIC 18F4580 ...

Prior to the 1920s, miners wore a soft cap made of cloth or canvas with a leather brim and lamp bracket to hold their light. But in 1919, Edward D. Bullard of San Francisco, California developed the ...

Eventually, that goal led Ding to create the Lumos Kickstart Helmet ($180), whose LED lights not only increase a cyclist’s visibility but also blink to indicate if she is making a left or right ...

Jeff Chen Hao-ren, 23, came up with the smart bicycle helmet, called Lumos, which is designed to improve the safety and visibility of cyclists riding after dark. Using integrated LED lights on the ...