Tag: SNOWBOARD

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 ...

We've seen old electronics recycled into art before, but some German dudes have gone and found an entirely new use for a couple of old laptops. According to Engadget, enterprising mountain enthusiasts took two Apple Powerbook G4s and fused them together to create a snowboard. They took a power drill to the laptops and removed unnecessary parts (for optimal lightness), attached bindings (for ...

Bluetooth technology has been finding its way into ski gear for years now, but Swany has taken things to a whole 'nother level -- one that's only reachable via the heated quad-lift. Unless this description is positively inaccurate, there's actually a Bluetooth module, speaker and microphone tucked within one of the g.cell gloves. When it detects an incoming call, it gives your wrist a shake ...