Many different manufacturers have marketing jargon in their product information about why their helmet is designed to be the safest. At least POC had a rotating inner part of the helmet with a similar operating principle in some models, but now that I checked again, POC has also moved under the MIPS sticker. When regularly renewing the helmets in our household, I have noticed that the MIPS sticker no longer doubled the price of the helmet on the last buying round, as it once did. Now it seems you can get the cheapest MIPS-certified helmets for an RRP of 30 euros.
In motorcycle helmets, Kask work helmets, and climbing gear, a yellow sticker has already appeared on the back, but that disc helmet was new to me.
The story behind this invention is great, but it inevitably brings to mind Volvo and the seat belts given to everyone for free, or whether the minimization of rotational motion can be covered by patents and make large customer masses pay a significant extra price for this.
Our household’s helmets are MIPS, and fortunately, my wife had a new helmet on her head a few years ago when an excavator driver swung the bucket in front of her on the bike path. The helmet had MIPS, but the more important thing was that the helmet was new and undamaged, so it still had its tension intact.