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Brainy Helmets Is Combining Research And Expertise To Combat Concussions In Sports

Brainy Helmets is a company that produces the latest research and data on head trauma in contact and adventure sports. Now their materials science is anticipated to boost to the forefront of next generation protective equipment development.

Chief-engineer VR Martin’s widespread background in materials development for military and commercial uses, mixed together with his enthusiastic participation in action sports, led him on a personal mission to play around with his own protective headgear. Now, with the help of Brainy Helmets industries, they will be able to launch high quality products for contact sports including football and hockey.

Martin and co-founders will seek partnerships that will let them work together with engineers and educational laboratories to apply its material capabilities to specific headgear products for widely specialized purposes. Brainy Helmets has collaborated with experienced entrepreneurs and financiers, who will be able to help Brainy Helmets quickly, manufacture products to market.

“We have materials to come to market now, but in products primarily affordable only to the National Football League and National Hockey League – and we are reaching out to them – but we are looking to create research contracts to work collaboratively with as many developers as we can,” Martin said. “I have worked on impact protection systems for the military, and technology exists for superior design in both shell materials and interior helmet design.”

The company strategies will include a crowd-funding effort on Kickstarter, but also will form equity joint ventures with various developers to turn Brainy Helmets into a “hub” of research on brain injury prevention and helmet design. Head trauma and brain damage has become an epidemic in contact sports and these specialized products will strive to reduce this issue.

 

 

 

 

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