Engineering students at Michigan Technological University are working on a prototype for advanced safety in motorcycle helmets. The team wants to mimic our bodies own natural defenses against head trauma, they used the human head as a model for developing a new helmet lining.

These students are one of 16 teams that were chosen from 200 colleges to compete in a National Inventors Conference in San Francisco. They will be demonstrating this new model that they call an Enhanced Biomorphic (EBM) helmet layer at the Exploritorium Science Museum.