Enjoy wearing it as much as possible. If your head usually sweats when you ride or gets itchy under hats, find a helmet with more vents and one that weighs less as this will mean that you want to wear it and enjoy wearing it. Safety The Park & Diamond is well suited for anyone who wants a helmet that’s relatively discrete— the helmet doesn’t look like you’re wearing a helmet at all, and then once you’re done with it, you can easily roll it up and make it disappear. Note that we do not recommend the accordion-style folding helmets due to safety concerns, as the person who originally came up with the design for these helmets himself has said that he does not believe they are safe (see comments here), although they claim to be both EN-1078 and CPSC.

The helmet is basically comprised of two parts: the helmet itself and a cover – which is essentially a cap. The cover is easy to attach and remove from the helmet, with Velcro around the edges of the helmet keeping the cover in place. This also means that you can swap and change between covers – of which Closca have various designs available for €22-a-piece. However, there are a number of folding helmets that have come on the market since then which beat out the Pango in most ways. Today’s folding helmets are smaller, lighter, easier to fold, and look better, so it’s no surprise that most people prefer the newer designs instead. Other Foldable Helmets (Coming Soon) The helmet’s collapsibility function is the other big selling point from Closca. The video below shows how easy the helmet is to prepare, with the size of the helmet easily compressed with your hands using the clever sliding function on the interior. As seen by the collection of foldable helmets in this article these types of helmets are safe, fashionable, and take up little space.Spaceballs. Dark Helmet has a Vader-esque faceplate that slides up and down (often at the worst possible moment).

The FEND is another new folding helmet which is also affordable. It folds easily, stays shut when folded, and is easy to carry by hand– making it quite portable. It also looks pretty good. The main downside is that it doesn’t fold so compact compared to other folding helmets. Yes. Foldable helmets are safe, and cannot be sold in most countries unless they pass the specific safety certification for that country. When folded, the Closca helmet takes up only 50% of the space when unfolded. And when you unfold it, you get a stylish looking helmet that closely resembles a baseball cap. While this may be a turnoff for some of you, I guarantee you won't find a better designed collapsible helmet than the Closca helmet. Even if possible in Real Life, this would probably be a bad idea. The multiple moving parts would certainly weaken the helmet and compromise its protectiveness in a fight or a crash — breaking into pieces is exactly what you want your helmet not to do. Also, you wouldn't want to accidentally hit the switch at the wrong time, nor catch your hair or nose in the closing mechanism. Thus, this trope is Awesome, but Impractical, with its impracticality overlooked in fiction thanks to the Rule of Cool. Aron's space helmet in Doraemon: Nobita and The Space Heroes, which appears as a metal collar before it's activated, unfolding into an astronaut's helmet in seconds.Casshern Sins: Casshern has a helmet that retracts into his collar when not in use. Although it's a downplayed example, because in the entirety of the show we never actually see it do this, as he's either wearing it or not wearing it but is never shown donning it on or taking it off. We only know thanks to development material. Why might you want the Plixi as opposed to another folding helmet? Well, there’s no strong reason to go one way over another. Maybe you like the style? For whatever reason, this helmet may just be the one that works for you. It’s certainly a decent option. Thor: Love and Thunder: Jane Foster as the Mighty Thor has an Asgardian helmet that comes and goes as part of her costume. In this case, though, it isn't through technology but thank to Mjölnir's magic.

Dead Space 3 shows another problem: damage can result in the helmet not deploying. This nearly proves fatal when Isaac crash-lands on a frozen planet. Unlike other helmets that fold in from the side, Closca’s helmet folds from the top down. Once it has been folded it is half of it’s expanded size making it easy to store. The round ringed vents help keep your head cool. Undoubtedly the biggest benefit of a folding helmet is convenience. Having a helmet is great for protecting your head, but it can be a burden to carry around the rest of the day. With a collapsible helmet, you can significantly reduce it’s size so that it can easily slide into a bag. In one of the trailers for darkSector that looked very little like the game that eventually came out * ...but very much like its Spiritual Successor Warframe, the Powered Armor used by Hayden Tenno has one.In recent years we’ve seen multiple successful crowdfunding campaigns launched for foldable bike helmets. Yes, you heard me right, foldable, or collapsible, bike helmets; there are a wide variety of designs. Consider also where you’re going to ride. If you want to ride on big main roads is this sensible to do in a lightweight small helmet or should you invest in a more sturdy, larger helmet. Guts's Berserker Armor from Berserk. And that helmet? Looks like the head of a stylized hellhound, symbolic of Guts's inner beast. ( It didn't before.) Halo 4: The Didact's Helmet takes this a step further by assembling from free floating pieces, along with the rest of his armor.