Kickstarter campaign for a product that could save lives

by Ben Reilly Thu Mar 27, 2014 4:26 am

I just got a press release for this product and its Kickstarter campaign. Where there's nothing I could possibly do to help these people in my profession, I thought I'd help bring them some eyeballs by posting about it here.

Basically it's a very eye-grabbing LED belt system that could help people avoid getting hit by cars when they have to go out at night. To me, it looks pretty cool too:

Kickstarter campaign for a product that could save lives HALO%20X%20red%201

Kickstarter campaign for a product that could save lives HALO%20X%20red%201

http://www.halobelt.com/

by Guest Thu Mar 27, 2014 4:27 am

Are they going to sell it here? My grandson is a cyclist and that looks really good for making sure he can be seen.

by Ben Reilly Thu Mar 27, 2014 4:30 am

Sassy wrote:Are they going to sell it here? My grandson is a cyclist and that looks really good for making sure he can be seen.

From what I can tell, they're already selling and they say their business is global -- probably means they'll ship anywhere Smile

by Guest Thu Mar 27, 2014 4:33 am

Great, going to get him one then, always worry about him cycling to work etc. Thanks for that.

Going to try sleep again lol.

by Lone Wolf Thu Mar 27, 2014 10:45 am

Ben_Reilly wrote:I just got a press release for this product and its Kickstarter campaign. Where there's nothing I could possibly do to help these people in my profession, I thought I'd help bring them some eyeballs by posting about it here.

Basically it's a very eye-grabbing LED belt system that could help people avoid getting hit by cars when they have to go out at night. To me, it looks pretty cool too:

http://www.halobelt.com/

That looks like a trimmed down 'civilian' version of an industrial LED/LCD safety vest that has been used by the likes of roadwork crews, forklift drivers and similar nighttime workers for a year or three already now. (I've already seen them on some road repair jobs, and in industrial safety gear catalogues ~ but haven't yet seen any of these lightweight/minimalist versions down here yet..).

Possibly made and supplied by this same company as well ?

by Guest Thu Mar 27, 2014 10:52 am

some idiots this way on ride at night with no light and usually in dark clothes...

by Ben Reilly Fri Mar 28, 2014 7:34 pm

Godisgoodallthetime wrote:some idiots this way on ride at night with no light and usually in dark clothes...

I know the type! I have to drive at night a lot because of my job, and they're always the people that I'm swerving to avoid at the last second and spending the rest of my drive trying not to have a heart attack ...

by harvesmom Sat Mar 29, 2014 1:18 am

There was something similar to this shown on the recent Dragons Den series, an ex paratrooper I think had designed it for joggers at night. It got thrown out by the Dragons and I couldn't understand why, I thought it was a brilliant idea.

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