I’m in a high-tech factory space in Bow, East London, meeting with Jamie Cook, inventor of a new helmet tech ingredient, Release Layer System or RLS. Our conversation starts in a room surrounded by broken or half-made helmets and as much as the tech I’ve already seen here is cool, it’s also pretty grim.
The solutions we’re discussing today are about preventing life-changing brain injuries in helmeted sports contexts, and the at first trivial-looking litter surrounding me, from some of the 5000 plus individual helmet tests they've undertaken here, is sobering. As I sit down and reach for the cuppa they’ve just made for me, we start discussing just how many friends we know who have been impacted by head injury whilst riding a bicycle.
