ICEdot Crash Sensor helmet-mounted sensor could save your life

if this registers impact does that mean you actually need to bang your head on the ground or does it work on rapid deceleration. surely something detecting if the bike was still upright would be better possibly less prone to error. maybe adding this sort of feature and a phone sim to a gps device would be a better solution

Quite a neat idea but not for me as I don't have a smart phone

However I strongly recommend everyone setting up some ICE contacts just in case something might happen while out on the road.

For me to use this I'd have to use my smart phone on bike and I don't wanna do that. As its to good a piece equipment to take with me on bike. Though I do have a fone with me.

I heard that if you use 112 (euro emergency number) it routes you through to 999 but first records your location - does anyone know if this is true?

If super-rural without a cell signal is an issue, you should look at Spot Trackers.

Great if it works; but if not, ambulances and police cars looking for someone who does not need help? There are never enough ambulances/police cars around.

The "detect impact" part of this thing is error-prone, and just going to result in false alarms and, worse, false negatives (you have a crash, but this thing doesn't detect it). Further, it's probably unnecessary. Save your money and just install one of the live location tracker phone apps.

E.g. OpenGeoTracker: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.opengeotracker.android

Nice idea but could be refined;

For the non-helmet wearers some other fxing point perhaps.

For phones which include accelerometers and gps then perhaps these could be utilised and avoid having to use the bluetooth and run down batteries.

Certainly a step ahead of carrying id and contact details. When I was a victim of a crash a couple of years ago the police arrived on the scene just after the ambulance and the officer used one of my phones to call my emergency contacts. Having your emergency contact stored in your phone under the name ICE means that they can do that even if you are not conscious.

By the way - I have an ICE app on my phone that is on my homescreen so should anyone I am with or a stranger find me they can hopefully find my phone and use the info in the app. I recommend getting one folks, they're free on Google Play.

Maybe a Blutooth remote between helmet sensor and phone?

I run Strava and Runkeeper for walking and cycling. Walking not likely to be a problem but on my bike my phone is usually in a sealed case (though one that you can activate the touchscreen through, dhb from Wiggle a good £2 worth IMHO) and secreted away in a pocket or worse rucksack.

A good idea though and I'm sure that refinement will produce a good workable product.

Oh and just realised, I don't wear my helmet when I'm out walking! D'OH!

And as it's Bluetooth it will drain your phone battery - better head out with one phone for GPS and another for the ICEdot.

Great idea, just a shame you need a phone signal for it to work. A phone signal that is non-existent in a lot of the remote places where this would be most useful.