A Helmet That Detects Hard Hits

There is a growing awareness that football players, from the high-school to the professional level, can suffer permanent brain damage from repeated concussions, even relatively minor ones. “The whole point of this technology is to measure the severity and location of head impacts, especially those that would otherwise go unnoticed, so that we can better understand when a concussion has occurred,” says Rick Greenwald, CEO of Simbex, a research and product-development company based in Lebanon, NH. Read the full article here.