Tag: SNOWBOARDING

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 ...

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 ...