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A foldable bike helmet made of paper has won this year’s James Dyson Design Award. Designer Isis Shiffer created the EcoHelmet to be used by the millions of people who use bike-sharing schemes around ...

Isis Shiffer’s life revolves around bikes. While working at Bilenky Cycle Works in Philadelphia, she designed custom bikes. Each one had its own artful flair—a tiny metal manta ray delicately perched ...

When it comes to life-saving protective gear, “collapsible” doesn’t seem like a word you’d want to hear, but this folding bike helmet just won a top design award for its unique design and unusual ...

Among the reasons that some people give for not using bicycle helmets is the claim that they take up too much room in a bag when taken off … but a group of Manhattan-based entrepreneurs are out to ...

NEW YORK - A Brooklyn designer and avid bike rider has won big for her new "eco helmet." Pratt graduate Isis Shiffer has won the James Dyson Award, a prestigious product design award that celebrates ...

Scientists and inventors have been taking their cues from nature for centuries, but who would have thought the somewhat exotic pangolin (aka scaly anteater) and honeybees would influence a bicycle ...

A folding paper bicycle helmet that costs less than £5 has been named as the international winner of the James Dyson Award 2016. The ingenious EcoHelmet is ultra-strong, recyclable, waterproof for ...

Engineer Philippe Arrouart and designer Patrick Jouffret, of the French agency 360, say that the main reason people don’t wear bike helmets is because they’re annoying to carry around. Really? We ...

A US designer has won the coveted International James Dyson Award for an innovative bike helmet made out of paper. New Yorker Isis Shiffer's disposable EcoHelmet took the £30,000 ($37,476) prize, ...

CTV News Channel: Unfolding the EcoHelmet James Dyson Award winner and EcoHelmet designer Isis Shiffer explains what makes her paper helmet sturdy and able to prevent injuries.