Tag: SKIING

There's a budding (and utterly bizarre) romance brewing on Twitter, between Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. It all began in June, when Medvedev traveled to Silicon Valley, and locked eyes with the Governator for the first time. With his heart a-fluttering, the president flirtatiously winked at his new BFF, and even quoted the famous "I'll be ...

No one's denying that chair lifts at ski resorts can be deadly. Although most of those killed on lifts are adults, parents won't have to worry about their children tumbling through the chilly air this winter -- that is, if they opt for a resort that's installed the Magnestick. As Wired reports, the Magnestick is a giant wearable magnet that secures children in place while they ride ski lifts. A ...

Vail, Colorado's reputation as a premiere global ski destination has been earned from almost 50 trailblazing years of excellent service, sprawling terrain and unrivaled entertainment for families and casual riders. Vail and Summit County now hope to further the evolution of U.S. mountain sports with a new app that intertwines up-to-the-minute snow and trail reports, various aspects of social ...

Our favorite online games are the simple ones with a high-replay value (e.g., 'Canabalt'). It doesn't hurt if they're free, either. The latest title to drag down our productivity is a 2-D side-scroller called 'Solipskier' that asks gamers to guide a stick-figure skier down the slopes -- while drawing those said slopes. Like we said, it isn't a complex game, with the simple objective to navigate ...

When you strap on a pair of skis or a snowboard, naturally, you run the risk of sustaining a head injury. But students at Northeastern University have developed a helmet that not only protects your head, but monitors the severity of injuries, too. According to Inhabitat, the Head Impact Detection and Alert System is a helmet lined with sensors that measures acceleration and displays the severity ...

Timekeeping has moved past the simple stopwatch and thumb, and this year's Winter Games makes no exception. According to Wired, over 650 Omega employees and volunteers ensure that times and measurements are as accurate as possible, and the timing company spent six years prepping for Vancouver, refining and setting up the complex network of clocks and cameras essential to the competition. (Check ...

The Winter Olympics, in case you've been busy doing interesting things, are in full swing. For most of us, that means rallying behind anonymous athletes in obscure events, dozing off in front of curling, and wondering what Michelle Kwan is doing these days. It's also, however, a time when we turn our thoughts to ski chalet getaways, and, more importantly, the cool gear we can buy to justify them. ...

How's this for a new BlackBerry commercial? A skier glides down a powdery, white slope in Switzerland. Suddenly, he falls into a crevice. Just before he slips farther, his BlackBerry (stored in his chest pocket) catches the ice and saves him from falling to his death. It might not be a practical way to sell a product, but the phone company won't have to search for a spokesman. According to a ...

We've certainly seen mobile-activated bus stop ads before, but the cool factor on this one was just too impressive to overlook. Tryvann Winter Park, a ski resort that sits just 15 minutes away from downtown Oslo, was searching high and low for ways to better market itself to residents of the bustling Norweigian city. In order to do so, it turned to JCDecaux, which conjured up the brilliant idea ...

Even though the ski season is drawing to a close, before you go out to carve some sicky-gnar pow, there's a new device to add to your arsenal of beacon, shovel and probe. Snowpulse, a Swiss-based distributor of ski gear, has designed and released an avalanche "life-saver." The 'Life Bag' consists of a large orange cushion, resembling a life preserver, that inflates out of an apparently normal ...

The micro-blogging service Twitter played a role in attempts to rescue two snowboarders lost in Switzerland this week, reports Fox News. British Internet entrepreneurs Rob Williams and Jason Tavaria were snowboarding in the Verbier ski resort Monday when bad weather separated them from their party. Over the next 24 hours, concerned friends and colleagues took to Twitter, spreading news of ...

Lost in the New Mexico mountains during a fierce snowstorm, 19-year-old snowboarder Sebastian Gomez wound up alone, with an iPod as his only companion, according to CBSNews. That iPod -- not iPhone, mind you -- wound up saving his life. Having stopped to wipe down his goggles, Gomez's friend Greg Blea lost sight of his snowboarding partner and, despite his best efforts, could not find him ...

We've already learned that an iPod can be used to stop bullets (we don't suggest building body armor out of them, though), but now you can add emergency beacon to the list of life-saving alternate uses for the Apple media player. A pair of French tourists on a ski trip in Switzerland found themselves lost in the woods late Friday. They called rescue officials who began a search, but the pair's ...