Recon Instruments putting heads-up display, extra layer of 'cool' within ski goggles

It's a match made in heaven, really. A GPS-linked heads-up display system, and ski goggles. Together, at long last, forever. Recon Instruments is reportedly developing said technology right now, and if all goes well, a HUD-equipped set of alpine goggles will indeed be on sale to the general populace next fall for between $350 to $450. The device is expected to tap into your cellphone, and if said phone has a GPS chip within, you'll be able to see where you're at, where your fellow snow bunnies are and where you're headed. It'll also provide all sorts of other vital information, such as hang time off of the rail jump, altitude gain / loss, a stopwatch and temperature. There's no word on whether it'll alert you when too much powder starts building on that front-side edge, but here's hoping these things are durable enough to survive the face-plant that'll inevitably ensue when that scenario plays itself out.

[Rohan Posted Dec 7th 2009 7:59AM]

Cool, my childhood dreams of following the gadgetery trails of Bond and DragonBall are coming closer to reality!

[Freakin Ijit Posted Dec 7th 2009 8:01AM]

Uh...when you're skiing you need detailed directions?

"Down" isn't enough?

[acegilbert Posted Dec 7th 2009 8:20AM]

@Freakin Ijit I think that this is a better product for snowmobiling. Every year people die in the mountains because they get lost. Also, I do a lot of mountaineering; if this is really light it could be a fun way to track elevation gains and the like.

[Level 5 Posted Dec 7th 2009 8:16AM]

THE GOGGLES ZEY DO NA-SING!

[TheNotoriousROB Posted Dec 7th 2009 8:16AM]

"where you're at"

great English, Shakespeare

[radicalxedward Posted Dec 7th 2009 8:33AM]

YA!!!!!! Edwards goggles will be real!!!! Lets hope this works out better than the sunglass stuff thats out there right now. When are we gonna have stuff like this that lets you control things by eye movement. now THAT would be cool. (and worth $450)

[Bender Posted Dec 7th 2009 8:51AM]

terrible idea.

I already see waaayyy too many distracted people on the slopes.

[Fuzzball Posted Dec 7th 2009 8:51AM]

We need a HUD in our cars before we need a HUD in our ski goggles. No, the handful of cars GM has put HUDs into don't count since there are so few out there.

[Downpour Posted Dec 7th 2009 9:07AM]

That image is so bad, my copy of Photoshop just committed suicide.

[KAL326 Posted Dec 7th 2009 9:39AM]

Great now I can have my own real life version of 1080, now just need to learn to snowboard and make sure the life insurance is paid up.

[apairofdocs Posted Dec 7th 2009 9:42AM]

Am I the only one thinking that this new heads up display will go great with my new ski mask?

[MarkA Posted Dec 7th 2009 10:18AM]

"a HUD-equipped set of alpine goggles will indeed be on sale to the general populace next fall"

The way, I ski, fall comes around very often..

[rcappo Posted Dec 7th 2009 3:23PM]

Sounds like this would make a large paintball game between teams a lot more interesting if you could track where your teammates were at.

[Eternal Density Posted Dec 8th 2009 4:41AM]

Does it work on regular mad-scientist goggles?