--- title: KAV Portola Helmet: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022 description: Find out why KAV Portola Helmet is one of the best inventions of 2022 canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6224852/kav-portola-helmet/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2022-11-10T11:04:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T00:07:55.248Z og:title: KAV Portola Helmet: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022 og:description: Find out why KAV Portola Helmet made this year's list og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6224852/kav-portola-helmet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte91b8a516e8391c2/698a3778929fadc2cfbf93ba/best-iventions-2022-KAV-Helmet.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: KAV Portola Helmet: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: KAV Portola Helmet: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022 twitter:description: Find out why KAV Portola Helmet made this year's list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte91b8a516e8391c2/698a3778929fadc2cfbf93ba/best-iventions-2022-KAV-Helmet.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 10, 2022 # A Sleeker, Safer Helmet KAV Portola Helmet by [Eliza Brooke](https://time.com/author/eliza-brooke/) ## Eliza Brooke  Sergiy Barchuk for TIME This sleek helmet makes an argument that safety and custom-fit comfort can go hand in hand. In April, the Silicon Valley–based brand KAV Sports launched its [Portola helmet](https://kavsports.com/products/kav-portola-helmet), boasting that it exceeds U.S. helmet protection standards by 25%. Each helmet is custom-­3D-printed—the $320 price tag includes a “fit kit” and a virtual fit session—with a carbon-fiber composite, a low-profile “anti­mushroom” silhouette, and an impact-­efficient honeycomb structure inspired by aerospace engineering. “We founded the company with the mission of saving lives, and recognized very early on that in order to do that, we had to have a product that not only looked better but felt amazing on your head,” KAV Sports CEO Whitman Kwok says. **Buy Now:** [KAV Portola Helmet](https://kavsports.com/products/kav-portola-helmet) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6224852/kav-portola-helmet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6224852/kav-portola-helmet/"},"headline":"A Sleeker, Safer Helmet","datePublished":"2022-11-10T11:04:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:07:55.248Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6224852/kav-portola-helmet/","keywords":["list","franchise","ecommerce","best inventions","Best Inventions 2022"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte91b8a516e8391c2/698a3778929fadc2cfbf93ba/best-iventions-2022-KAV-Helmet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Brooke","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-brooke/"}],"creator":"Eliza Brooke","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte91b8a516e8391c2/698a3778929fadc2cfbf93ba/best-iventions-2022-KAV-Helmet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6224852/kav-portola-helmet/","name":"A Sleeker, Safer Helmet"}}]}] ```