Hard and heavy is not actually better to avoid traumatic brain injury playing football. The Apache helmet shows why.

The entire helmet is 3D printed as one piece using a semi-transparent PLA filament with NeoPixel strips (144 pixel per meter) laid inside. It takes about 3 days to complete the printing job ...

who helped to scan Niblett’s head and create a 3D image. Then they had to create something that would be between a football helmet and a skull cap. After several iterations, on July 15 ...

Football helmets have ... the team dissected existing helmets and rethought the entire framework. The result? An “impact-modified nylon shell” paired with a 3D-printed thermoplastic ...