I used to write programs for the D.E.C PDP8 in Octal and Hexadecimal format and fried many brain cells studying Boolean equations.

Let us try to address some of your questions and concerns.

Intelligent Lighting
1. We have found that the biggest complaint riders have about the road is that “people don’t see us.” That is the biggest hazard on the road, not being seen. In addition to that most motorists have confessed to paying more attention the the rider than the bike, which is where all of the lights and indicators are. So our helmet was designed with this in mind, we are trying to take advantage of the attention placed on the rider and use the Smart Helmet to clarify his or her actions on the road.

Design and Construction
2. The styling is different but it isn’t all fashion, the curves and swoops came from our attempts to make the helmet more aerodynamic and yes beautiful. While the latter task is subjective, the former is objective and we are currently performing CFD analysis to improve air flow. Now as far as weight goes, the combined weight of all the electronics are less than the weight of two AA batteries. It may seem like all of those components might be heavy, but they are all very small and light weight. We are exploring printed battery technology at the moment inorder to keep the battery weight down. At present the prototype does not weigh more than a Shoei helmet, in fact it weighs less.

Production and Kickstarter
3. We will be conducting a Kickstarter campaign sometime this summer. This a second stage prototype, we are working on our third stage prototype. We will start our Kickstarter campaign with that model, and yes after that we are going into production.

Company Name: Yes you got it right! We named the company after a nand gate because the nand gate is a universal gate in logic design, with it you can design and build any digital circuit you like. If you look closely at the logo you will see that the “d” in the word Nand doubles as a nand gate! Embedded SoC design is what we do, we are an engineering design firm. However we will be bringing some single ended solutions to the marketplace, the Smart Helmet is just the start.