Comments on: Diving helmet of the future is all glass and uses LEDs http://www.slashgear.com/diving-helmet-of-the-future-is-all-glass-and-uses-leds-2186542/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Mon, 14 May 2012 06:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: pepper http://www.slashgear.com/diving-helmet-of-the-future-is-all-glass-and-uses-leds-2186542/#comment-63558 pepper Fri, 21 May 2010 19:11:03 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=86542#comment-63558 The linked site has some nice comments. You’ll need a lot of additional weight to get this helmet under water. The helmet also needs to be pressurized, otherwise your lungs will escape through your mouth. This means you need to fill it with breathable air, which under pressure will be a noticable amount that you have to get rid of and refill whenever you change the depth by a few meters. I also don’t want to be stuck in that thing if something doesn’t work. Probably creates a much higher risk of ripping your lungs.

]]> By: pepper http://www.slashgear.com/diving-helmet-of-the-future-is-all-glass-and-uses-leds-2186542/#comment-63557 pepper Fri, 21 May 2010 18:56:28 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=86542#comment-63557 As a scuba diver I don’t follow the argument on reduced vision. Typically you use big goggles so you’re not restricted by them. To the contrary, it looks like those orange “side panels” would give you a tunnel view in this design, you have to turn your head to see something on your side.

And the time such small rebreathers are feasible, we’ll lack the oil to produce them. This design is nothing but dysfunctional eye-candy. Without an Apple logo, nobody will buy it.

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