GPS enabled goggles

[billski]

But if I lose them, will it help me find them? Hmm, at that price I'd be pretty paranoid about losing them. Only stats nuts need apply.


Boulder, CO -Boulder-based Zeal Optics has revealed its newest model of goggles with a built-in global positioning system, the Z3. These goggles build upon technology first introduced in the company’s Transcend GPS Goggles collection with new features that include enhanced style and comfort, ease of use and data capture capabilities.

...Like its predecessors, Z3 GPS is armed with technology that provides real-time access to performance statistics including speed, altitude, temperature, and time during your run down the slopes. The monitor inside the goggles has been redesigned to be less obtrusive. The system has a stopwatch and chrono mode and runs with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery with a seven-hour run time. These goggles now capture ski jump data for analysis of vertical maneuvers. Controls for the system have been moved from their previous location on the goggle frame to a wireless remote that can be worn on the wrist, arm or goggle strap

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Zeal Optics’ Z3 GPS Goggles are priced at $549

 

[Hawkshot99]

I tried them out last winter and they were pretty sweet. Just not sweet enough to pay for......

 

[speden]

I read last year that if you need reading glasses, you won't be able to read the HUD display. Apparently there is no lens in front of the display to focus it at infinity like a true HUD, so you need to have good close up vision to focus on it. So that rules it out for me unless they fixed that this year.

Not sure it would be very useful anyway unless you wanted to hit a certain speed for a jump. Other than that it seems like it would be a distraction.

 

[drjeff]

I could just see it now trying to stare at the HUD data!



Must hit 88 mph, must hit 88 mph! Cr@p I just hit a tree

 

[bigbog]

Yessssssss, with FLIR.

 

[Dylan]

Takes the romance out of getting lost – and being found again!

 

[bigbog]

..Is true Dylan..
Interesting Bill....with some serious thought given to being AV victim...with some additonal communication..maybe with some remote phone app = might have a genuine place as backcountry gear.