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A college student’s invention could save football players from getting brain damage

By Connor Livingston1 min readGoogle News

A student at the Brigham Young University in Utah has created a “smart foam” for football helmets that can display on a computer exactly where and how hard a player was hit on the head.

With the NFL mired in a concussion crisis, more attention than ever is being paid to how football organizations and equipment manufacturers can lessen the negative effects of a violent sport.

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