A new discovery about the Discovery Helmets

[Agent RayBans]

in 113 feat. thomas bangalter there's the version where an orange LED is showing letters while lid up on a red LED band... cant post a video, its blocked in my country -_-

First and foremast, I strongly believe the helmet worn by Thomas in the Fort La Merde music video is the Transition/Hybrid style bucket. The lack of lights in the ears and corners of the visor proves this, in my eyes.

That, and the fact the the display is crooked in the picture above just like the one bellow.

And that being said, I believe the scrolling text is computer generated. Thomas' display in the transition helmet is only 3 LEDs tall, and the CG font has more "dots" than there are LEDs. If you look close, you can even see that the f, t, l, d, and ! are taller than the display.

Its strange to think that Thomas wouldn't wear the Discovery helmets since they wanted scrolling text for the video. But there must be a good reason why he didn't that we can only guess about.

And here is the music video, region free, for good measure.

[Dei]

http://youtu.be/jt3fv6Q9mEg

Here it is again, in case the video that was posted above is blocked(as it was in my country, hahah!)

[Crank729]

That is awesome!! I can't believe I have never noticed that!!!! I just thought the less LED'S was a setting on the helmets, but I guess I was wrong!! Great discovery.

[LeDaftOfPunk]

It's blocked T:

[LeDaftOfPunk]

It's blocked T:

[something awesome]

(Dei posted an unblocked link)

[LeDaftOfPunk]

(Dei posted an unblocked link)

It's blocked, I hate it when that happens

[LeDaftOfPunk]

I was also just thinking about them having to tour in that gear. It would have been impossible, maybe that's another part of the reason why they didn't do a Discovery tour.

Also, Thomas once stated on their Alive 2006/2007 that doing a tour in those helmets (plus all-leathers) is like doing F1 standing up (Which is really hot). If Daft Punk had tried doing that in the Discovery LED-filled monsters, they would've collapsed, and might've been hurt badly if they fell to the FLOOR.

So that is my random hypothesis on why the Discovery tour is as existent as a free Daft Punk helmet.