Will backers of failed startup Skully finally get their US$1,500 smart helmets?


  • TECH
  • Monday, 02 Oct 2017

The high-tech Skully motorcycle helmet, as it appeared in product photography images on the company’s website. The tricked out helmet featured heads-up display, GPS-tracking, a rear-view camera and enhanced audio capability, all starting at about $1,500 per helmet. (Skully)

Smart helmet startup Skully is attempting a comeback, promising to finally ship products to the thousands of customers burned by the company's spectacular failure last year. 

Skully, which tried to revolutionise the motorcycle industry with a US$1,500 (RM6,333) augmented reality helmet, crashed and burned a year ago, without delivering the vast majority of the 3,000 products customers pre-ordered and paid for. Now a new company is rising from the ashes, to be called Skully Technologies, and the owners have vowed to get the high-tech helmets on customers' heads by next summer. 

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