Inventors: We've Developed Safer Hockey Helmets

A Toronto-based forensic engineer has developed what he claims is a better hockey helmet - one that uses "air bag" technology to dissipate sudden jolts of force and reduce the G-force on brains floating inside skulls.

In light of last week's controversial check by Boston Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara that sent the head of Montreal Canadiens forward Max Pacioretty into the glass partition between the benches and left him with a severe concussion and cracked vertebra, The Toronto Star reports that Jeff Archbold thinks the answer to curtailing hockey concussions lies in the laws of physics. "From the beginning, I knew you had to have an air-filled sack inside the helmet," Archbold, the 42-year-old president of ForceCap Technologies, told the paper. "Just like an air bag in a car, if you bump someone in front of you, it doesn't go off, but if you have real impact, it does."

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