GPS on the ski slopes
July 28th, 2010 by matt
GPS but not as we know it - image © www.skiingaustria.co.uk
Heads-up display of speed and altitude inside a pair of ski goggles? Yes that is what I saw in a gadget magazine I was handed over the weekend in the New Forest. I thought they would be ideal for the German race teams that train on the Stubai Glacier in autumn and clock up about 20 km/h on slopes of around 3 degrees incline. They also reminded me of the 1980’s goggles that incorporated a battery powered fan to clear condensation. I am over in our UK office and I uncovered an old GPS system that I used when I canoed across Australia back in 1997 and got inventing (or perhaps integrating is more realistic). Do you think it will sell?
are you plugging Sony equipment now as cheap advertising??
I have to say if I was a Sony exec I would be wanting to bury this product (not promote it) - not sure where - Bournemouth made an artificial reef so maybe somewhere like that? Great in its day but that day is behind us now, it actually navigated me across Australia from Sydney to Adelaide back in 1997 when I canoed the rivers there. At one point I hadn’t spoken to anyone for over a week so this battery-hungry beast outputting lat/long felt like mat and angie, pre brad. I was given an article about ski goggles incorporating GPS technologies when I was back in the UK recently and then almost lost a toe walking into this at my parents’ house, hence the link. Commpredumungo?
you know that artificial reef was built by a NZ company & it doesn’t relly create the waves that they’d hoped for & the council are now refusing to pay the last 100k, not sure what they really expected? Bells Beach ???
….when all they needed to create a wave was dropmy Sony (circa. 1995) GPS unit into the sea off France and the salt water would have reached Oxford.