Headlight

It's convenient to have a headlight that's always on your bike, but the things can just get in the way when they're not needed. The Owlight was designed with that problem in mind, as it hides inside the handlebar during daylight hours.

It was just last week that we heard about the Otto, a simple-to-use bike tail light with some "smart" features. Well, the unrelated Luislight L300 could be considered the Otto's headlight equivalent.

Bike headlights are now so bright that they can dazzle motorists, potentially causing those drivers to run into the cyclists using them. The Farina, however, is made to be bright without being blinding – plus it has some other nifty features.

Self-driving cars can't make eye contact to signal their intentions, so Volkswagen is testing several systems that turn a car into an interactive information display to project information onto the road for drivers and display interactive information to other road users.

Through a slim fit with electronics built into the band, BioLite is promising new levels of comfort for wearers of its so-called HeadLamp, namely through the elimination of bounce at the front end. ​

The ALLight guys didn't manage to get their self-leveling motorcycle headlight bulb over the line in their first crowdfunding attempt, but they're back, and this time it looks like it's going to happen. The simple gadget replaces your stock headlight bulb with one that stays level in corners.

The ALLight swaps out any H4, H7 or H11 headlight globe with a self-leveling, super-bright projector beam that stays flat in the corners. Motorcycle manufacturers should be embarrassed that the aftermarket beat them to this universal solution.

​If you're a bicycle commuter, then it's entirely likely that you regularly encounter a pothole, etc that makes you say "Why doesn't the city DO something about this?". Well, first they have to know about it – and the Flare headlight is designed to tell them.

New S-Class Maybachs will soon get an impressive intelligent headlight upgrade. Digital Light puts a million pixels of resolution into each headlight, and works with the car's sensors and computers to display a bunch of driver-assist information right there on the road in front of you.

The water-resistant Speednite handlebar stem not only has a computer and an 800-lumen headlight, but the light tilts up and down as your head does, plus turning your head to either side triggers laser-projected turn indicators.​

Mercedes has just announced a conceptual new set of lamps that can not only adapt their light distribution to cater to the environment, but can project high-res visual aids onto the road ahead, such as makeshift zebra crossings for nearby pedestrians.

​Modern headlamps are much brighter and whiter than in the past, but sometimes brighter isn't better. Daimler has developed a new smart pixel system, able to more precisely mold its beam than existing adaptive headlights, cutting down on dazzle in the process.