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    AUSTRALIA’S SMART HELMET

    Jun 16, 2021 4 minutes
    BY: NIGEL PATERSON

    In a tiny shared workspace in an inner-Sydney suburb, half a dozen people are building one of the most high-tech safety products in the world. I couldn’t even find Forcite, hidden away deep in the bowels of a former factory, but one of the marvels of modern communication — the telephone — eventually had founder Alfred Boyadgis letting me in.

    Boyadgis kind of fits the mould of high-tech start-up company founder: casually dressed, softly-spoken, young and smart. And wanting to change the world. “I crashed my bike a few years back,” he said as he told me the story behind Forcite, his high-tech helmet company. “I wanted to know why, with all this great modern technology,

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