SportTechie · Sep 9, 2017
NFL Awards Impact-Absorbing Material With Unusual Geometric Structure
Three samples of the winning material from Head Health Challenge III, a competition to spur the discovery, design and development of advanced materials that can absorb or dissipate physical impacts to the head or body. Credit: Webber & Stoughton/NIST
Two California companies, 6D Helmets and Dynamic Research, Inc., have been named grand prize winners of the NFL’s Head Health Challenge III. The Challenge is part of a four-year, $60 million program Head Health Initiative that GE and the league collaborated on creating.