As highlighted by the cardboard bicycle, cardboard can be a surprisingly versatile manufacturing material in the right hands. Further proof of this comes via the Kranium: a bicycle helmet constructed ...

Would you ride a bike while wearing a helmet made of cardboard? What if its design was inspired by nature — specifically, a woodpecker? You'll have a chance to do just that next year — meaning you ...

Just last month, we told you about the Kranium – a prototype bicycle helmet with a core made from cardboard instead of the usual expanded foam. Well, we obviously weren’t the only ones impressed by it ...

Who would have thought that cardboard could protect your noggin? We’re not saying that you should wear a cardboard box on your head the next time you go out for a bike ride, but before long, you could ...

a few weeks ago, I’m looking for a new bike helmet (and thanking the Maker -- that would be - for the one that saved my cranium). Apparently, I should be looking at some cardboard models. This being ...

Royal College of Art student Anirudha Surabhi is the inventor of a new helmet design we never saw coming: the cardboard helmet. It sounds really funny, but taking a closer look at all the marvelous ...

Yeah, it sounds a little Calvin & Hobbes, but riding around with corrugated cardboard on your head can actually be safer than the plastic and Styrofoam concoctions you get at the bike store. The ...

Warren King is a former engineer turned artist, and he's a wizard when it comes to cardboard. Most of his mesmerizing sculptures are made with just cardboard, glue, and a knife. Warren shows us how to ...

An Indian-origin researcher has designed a new lighter and safer bicycle-helmet entirely made up of cardboard. Surabhi was inspired to create the Kranium following a nasty fall from his bicycle which ...

More than 1 year ago, we reported on the Kranium, the helmet made from cardboard, an invention which promised to change the way we secure our heads when riding a bicycle. The story did not end there, ...

Much is made today with carbon fiber, but this year the hot new material might be one that was first patented back in 1856 in England. Known as corrugated or pleated paper, it is more commonly known ...

It was a serious accident that sparked Anirudha Surabhi's senior design project at the Royal College of Art in London. He was hospitalized for several days with a concussion after a bike crash, and ...