Singaporean's smart bicycle helmet bags international design award
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SINGAPORE - A smart bicycle helmet that was the brainchild of a Singaporean has won a prestigious international design award in Britain. The sleek gadget, studded with LEDs that automatically light up when a cyclist brakes or makes a turn, won the Transport category of the 2016 edition of Beazley Designs of the Year, an annual competition organised by The Design Museum in London. A year after meeting fellow engineer Jeff Chen from China while they were both studying at Harvard in 2013, the duo co-founded their company Lumos to work on the helmet. Since starting out three years ago, the designers have raised more than US$800,000 through crowdfunding website Kickstarter, and engaged a contract manufacturer to make the helmets. "The Transport category is usually occupied with grand schemes for planes, trains and automobiles but something as simple as a helmet that helps cyclist to become more visible and safer is just as important," said one of the judges, design magazine Dezeens editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs.
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