New Goggles next year anyone?

[midwif]

Too much going on for me, but I can see these being the future for many.....


Flying down the mountain has never been so precise.

Zeal Optics has combined blue tooth technology, GPS tracking and of course their backcountry knowledge to design the most useful goggles we've ever seen, and they're just getting started.

With the Z3 goggle you can monitor your speed, altitude, air temperature and receive phone call and text notices from your Android phone though a small screen in the corner of the goggles. With the integrated GPS you can find yourself and your friends on the mountain, which is perfect when you inevitably separated on a run, especially on mountains with spotty cell service.

But the Z3 is just the beginning. Next year Zeal Optics is releasing the iON goggles, which builds on what they've achieved with the Z3 by adding an HD camera, with a 170-degree wide-angle lens, and an 8 megapixel still camera.

All of the controls for the goggles are managed through a blue tooth enabled remote that you can wear on your wrist like a watch and allows you to easily switch through all the functions.

These goggles aren't cheap, however. A pair of the Z3's will cost you $550. Fortunately the price of the iON's will be less, at $400.
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[bushwacka]

although those goggle do have features my set up doesnt have like a blue tooth remote. The picture quality is actually fairly bad and they are REALLY pricey!

I paid 80 dollarss for my Phenoms and 150 for my Go pro that leave me enough room to buy a nice pair of used skis for the price of those goggles.

For the Z3s GPS effectively to find your friends everyone would have to have a pair or uber expensive goggles.

Honestly we need less techno gadgets on the slopes. Unless I am caring cameras I carry nothing and almost never use my non smart cell phone.

[Svend]

With all that blinking and chiming and beeping going on, skiers seem to be risking becoming the on-mountain equivalent of distracted drivers.  I can hear the plea to the patroller:  "Honest, officer, I didn't see the little kid until I hit her.  I was checking my GPS position and top speed, and she just came out of nowhere!"

Yikes.  Keep me away.  Do those goggles have external blinking lights so I can give anyone wearing them a wide berth? Bad enough having drunks and stoners bombing runs, now we have to deal with idiots fussing with their gadgets too. 

My rant for the day.....

Have a good one!

[Gary]

EEK.....it wouldn't be bad skiing with another person with all that high tech gadgetry...but "not me not now".....

My dumb phone and cameras is as battery operated as I get!

Besides, if I'm trying to look at the real time info appearing on my goggles, I would need R2D2 watching for bogies coming out of the tree line!   

G

[midwif]

Interesting that we all seem to have had the same reaction....NOT FOR ME!

One of the nicest things about skiing are the quiet, beautiful moments.
Being in nature.
I usually turn my phone off, unless have lost my ski companion and need to coordinate.

I agree, a lot more distractions available to the skier using this to hurt or be hurt.
L.