I'm putting this idea up on behalf of my wife, so if someone makes a million out of it as she is sure will happen, please don't forget to mail me a cheque.
doeds it need any explanation? You wear a helmet when playing golf. The helmet stops balls hitting your head. complex huh?-- williamsmatt, Sep 18 2008 Yes, this is golf http://www.party4me.../images%5C25251.jpg [normzone, Sep 18 2008] American football style helmets, perhaps? http://www.break.com/index/shotrisk.html [Ling, Sep 18 2008] It will need to be tasseled (link).-- normzone, Sep 18 2008 Based on the premise that those most likely to be banged on the bonce are likely to be other golfers, thus deserving of a good bashing for playing such a silly pointless game, such helmets are a bad idea.
Better to have a flat, round, green cap, with a little red flag in the centre, makde of very thin material affording no protection whatsoever. The flag is for the other golfers to aim at.-- 8th of 7, Sep 18 2008 ...on the other hand, golf balls would make cute little helmets for hamsters...-- xandram, Sep 18 2008 Oh, if [8th] could have said a futuristic miniature radar shaped like a red flag wired to a trajectory mini computer board patched like the golf greens signaling to the dangling ear flaps of the cap a distress call: Get the hell out of the way, dumb head! A micro-end-of-your-world meteor is coming!...-- rotary, Sep 18 2008 You should just carry a bucket of water around with you - the water would slow down the incoming golf ball so it doesn't reach you and instead falls in the water.-- phundug, Sep 18 2008 Ah, that uses the well known fact that golf balls are magnetically attracted to water.-- Ling, Sep 18 2008 If you're already into wearing traditional golf attire, it's pretty tough to look like any more of a twat. So why not.-- Eugene, Sep 18 2008 It's not just tough, it's impossible ....-- 8th of 7, Sep 18 2008 thats funny rotary. i never thought a good joke would come out of it.-- williamsmatt, Sep 19 2008 Oh again, if [8th] could have said it's just tough, yet plausible. Yet, to explain it is too simple! Not a long-range radar actually but just to comb off the noise brought by insects such as flies and mosquitoes nearby that would interfere with motion capture. Install a motion detection camera-computer interface that superimpose video clips of the blue sky overhead captured from a wide-eyed lens. Reprogram the software to prioritize a rounded golf ball silhouette over fowl droppings whenever in a golf course - simply by a press of a button!
Well, maybe, just maybe, [8th] would conclude that there is truly just not yet a microchip invented to do such specific application... hmmm...
By the way, a kevlar upgrade is for the Unexpected Falling Objectionables :-)-- rotary, Sep 20 2008 More useful than prophylactics at the Vatican, at least.-- 4whom, Sep 21 2008 Ah, that A-ntichrist I-ndoctrinating D-emonic S-ervice prevalent in Vatican and in the pompous crown of a pope you mean?-- rotary, Sep 21 2008 random, halfbakery