Let your jacket signal for you while cycling (VIDEO)

Cue Michael Chen, a British product-design graduate has come up with a cycling jacket sports 20 light-emitting diodes (LEDs) sewn into the lining, which are activated by accelerometers. When the cyclist picks up speed, the LEDs on the back of the jacket turn green; they turn red under braking. Additional lights along the arms flash amber when the wearer raises an arm to indicate a turn.

The jacket which won the top prize in the James Dyson Awards, gets inspiration from the remote controller of the Nintendo Wii games console, which uses accelorometers – microscopic silcon weights connected to a chip by miniscule springs – to direct the action on the screen.

According to Chen
“For the first time, I noticed that cars passed me more slowly, gave me more room, and that the drivers and passengers were even making eye contact.”