biomimicry

Designing things and processes that are inspired from Nature. Like the bike helmet that take a clue how the skull protects itself. Excerpt from here. or No. 11. It's a 100+ slideshows on forecasted future trends in general..many technology based.

'scuse me, but how does the brain protect itself..to inspire designers to create a bike helmet that does this? :eek:

The slide says the helmet "takes a cue from the way the skull protects itself" which isn't the most precise writing ever.

To simplify without personifying, the brain is protected by floating in a gooey layer surrounded by the hard layer of skull, so maybe that's what designers have in mind for a helmet.