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| You may be wondering what YAH means. It means “Yet Another HUD” with HUD meaning Heads Up Display. Over the year, there have been several projects that put a display inside the biker’s helmet. |
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| It started several years ago (2005) with the first commercial product from a company called SportVue. SportVue was a small device installed on the top edge of your helmet, receiving wireless information from a “blackbox” installed in your motorcycle. |
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| The information was minimal: speed, RPM and gear selected, but it was a start. The product did not sell well, and that was the end of SportVue. But the idea was there. |
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| But since then, many companies have been introducing HUD for motorcycles. Some with a lot of information presented to the jet fighter biker, some with just the important one. Some companies made a lot of marketing hot air to see them go belly-up after a while (does the name Skully ring any bells?). Some companies are still working on the product. BMW for example are seriously looking at providing the HUD functionality in their high-end helmets. |
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| And let’s face it, the idea is actually very good. If you can pipe pertinent information to the biker’s helmet, allowing him/her to concentrate on the road instead of having to look at the instruments and/or GPS, you can save lives (and possibly speeding tickets, but I digress).. |
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| So let’s look at the next motorcycle HUD; Eyelights. |
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| Eyelights is a product designed in Toulouse, France (that’s where the Airbus airplane is made). With help of a startup boot camp, they are in the process of finalizing the design and they hope to bring the product to market by the end of this year. |
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