The Danesh Project

HÖVDING , The invisible bike helmet

No one likes bicycle helmets, they’re heavy, bulky and simply look weird. However, they keep us alive and I’d rather stay alive with an ugly helmet on then die without one.

The overall design of a helmet has not changed for a long time and it always seemed impossible to come up with a better design until now that is.

Design students  Anna and Terese thought it was possible. 7 years of hard work later they came up with the invisible helmet “HÖVDING”.

It’s essentially an air bag designed into a collar that fits around your neck with a custom shell designs to match your outfit. It will inflate in 0.1 sec when abnormal movement is detected either from a collision and when the rider falls of his bike. Read more

You can buy a “HÖVDING” for 3998 SEK (USD 600) from their online store.  I love the design, I’d buy it now if I had the money , guess I’ll have to wait.

Watch the video and be wowed. read more

Android Neon Lamp

Bring the party to you desk with this cool Android neon lamp. It looks small so most likely for your desk. Found it on the GoogleStore going for USD $36.40.  Check it out

I am thinking of getting one soon. Check out the night shot below.

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Flash for Android is over

Starting tomorrow Adobe will disable all new installs of Flash on Android devices.

Apple ditched Flash on its mobile platform and its desktop platform too. MS is also said be doing the same by limiting Flash on its OS.

Flash has always felt heavy on the desktop and mobile platforms unlike HTML5.  HTML5 is the way of the internet future for now and it’s good to see Adobe starting to work with HTML5.

@via androidme

HOW A BICYCLE IS MADE in the old days.

See how the basikal orang tua (old man bike) was built in 1945

HOW A BICYCLE IS MADE by the British Council

How to install Google Chrome on Linux Mint 13

Here’s how to install Google Chrome on Linux Mint 12 “Maya”.

1. Download the signing key.

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -

2. Download the install package. Beta or Stable

Beta,

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-beta_current_amd64.deb

Stable,

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

3. Install the Google Chrome package. This will also automatic add the Google Chrome repositories which will allow Google Chrome to receive updates.

sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-beta_current_amd64.deb

Enjoy your browser.