Biking at the moment can contain taking loads of tech alongside for the journey. For the third collaboration, optics outfit Yashica and digital camera innovator I’m Back are aiming to ease your journey with a sensible helmet designed for “city commuters, ebike fans, and tech-savvy riders.”
“Clipping, unclipping, and charging a number of units is a problem – and leaving them in your bike dangers theft,” reads the Indiegogo marketing campaign web page. “VirtusX1 solves this with its all-in-one design, combining a 2K digital camera, lights, and switch indicators in a single helmet with a single battery.”
Whether or not your bike has built-in lighting or not, the sensible helmet helps riders with visibility in daylight site visitors in addition to after-dark journeying by having 260-lumen LED lighting to the entrance plus wraparound strobe and signaling to the rear.
Yashica/I am Again
The entrance module can also be house to a digital camera with a wide-angle Yashica lens and Sony picture sensor. This may function a dashcam of kinds – however one which’s in your head – to doc rides and seize the conduct of different street customers. It is managed utilizing a handlebar distant and might document 2K footage at 30 frames per second, or 1080p at 60 fps. The helmet sports activities an built-in microphone, audio system and GPS monitoring too.
Footage will be recorded to microSD media courtesy of a slot within the helmet that is capable of take playing cards as much as 128 GB in storage capability. But it surely additionally works with the I am Again cell app over Wi-Fi for saving footage and audio to a telephone’s storage and subsequent assessment, edit and share from there. Bluetooth is cooked in for wi-fi digital camera management and hands-free name taking as effectively.
If the worst occurs and you are taking a tumble whereas out and about, a pre-saved message will be despatched to emergency contacts on the press of a button on the helmet.
All the pieces is powered by a 1,600-mAh battery that is reckoned good for as much as 10 hours of use per cost. Nonetheless, these endurance figures are for using onboard lighting solely. You’ll be able to anticipate this to drop when every part is operational, although the partnership hasn’t shared per-charge utilization occasions for that. When the juice runs low, the onboard cells are topped up over USB-C.
Yashica/I am Again
The VirtusX1 will plonk round 500 g (17.5 oz) of additional weight in your noggin, whereas boasting an aero design that “cuts via the wind to boost your efficiency.” It is usual from polycarbonate, expanded polystyrene and ABS plastic and sports activities venting for enhanced airflow. It is being made accessible in small and huge sizes, every with adjustment to the rear and comfortable straps, plus cloth padding and ear safety, for “a safe and cozy match.”
The helmet is licensed to European NTA-8776 requirements for quick ebikes (as much as 28 mph/45 km/h), in addition to being compliant with EN 1078/CPSC regs, and can be utilized for driving common bikes and scooters too.
Yashica and I am Again are elevating manufacturing funds over on Indiegogo, the place perks begin at US$179 – representing a 40% saving on the anticipated retail worth. Add-ons together with a motorcycle lock, alarm, microSD playing cards and t-shirts. The sensible helmet will be had in black or white. The standard crowdfunding cautions apply however this partnership has already delivered on the I’m Back 35 marketing campaign however is a bit delayed for the Micro Mirrorless crowdfunder. If all goes to plan with the already funded marketing campaign, delivery is estimated to begin from July 2025.
VirtusX1: Good Helmet Yashica – I am Again
Supply: Indiegogo
