To most of the world, construction helmets are all the same. That’s not the case with WaveCel’s new line of hard hats, built with technology previously seen in bicycle and snow sport helmets.

He designed the first-ever hard hat in 1915, which was made from layers of canvas that were steamed together with glue, a featured a leather brim, and a shock-absorbing suspension device inside.

The hard hat, called Safeguard, is a wearable device that fits inside a hard hat. It uses machine learning to recognize workers' unique movement patterns while they are completing tasks and ...