Skully AR-1 is a technologically advanced motorcycle helmet with integrated 180degree camera. It’s sharp, stealthy-looking black helmet read like specs off the navigation system of a fighter plane: heads-up display, rearview camera, and GPS navigation, all tied together by a high-speed microprocessor. And this helmet isn’t all work and no play; it also connects to wireless devices via Bluetooth, streams music, makes hands-free calls, and can even connect to the internet via Wi-Fi. It even has a visor that darkens and lightens at the push of a button!
The technology inside the Skully helmet is pretty impressive. There’s a rear-view camera that captures a wide-angle, 180-degree view of what’s going on behind you, in your blind spot, and all the way up to the edge of your peripheral vision. There’s integration with your smartphone’s GPS, phone, and music capabilities. And there’s a transparent heads-up display that shows both the rear-view camera imagery (“de-warped” so it’s easy for your brain to understand what it’s looking at — which can be tricky with a fisheye lens) as well as important alerts, such as an upcoming street that you need to turn on in order to reach your destination.
It sounds like a lot of information to throw in front of a motorcycle driver, and I was a little concerned when Weller told me that his customers respond to the product by saying how it makes them feel like a fighter pilot, or like Iron Man. Making motorcycle riders feel more like a cartoon superhero doesn’t seem like the best way to keep them from wrapping themselves around some car’s rear bumper.
https://www.skully.com/