Not being besties with Larry Ellison, we at Wearable Tech Insider don't claim to be the world's living experts on big-dollar yachting. But it's worth noting that Afterguard has a new yachting HUD based on Recon Instruments technology. Where ski goggles that use Recon displays put the display inside the glass, Afterguard's puts it outside. It's not unlike Google Glass, … [Read more...]
Recon Ski HUD Gets Facebook Integration
We've written before about the heads-up ski goggle display insert from Recon Instruments, which is the tech guts of several other goggles including Oakley's. Now comes word from Recon that the latest software rev will include Facebook integration. If you enable it, the Snow2 HUD module will let skier see their news feeds. The update, along with parallel updates to Recon's iOS … [Read more...]
Oakley HUD Ski Goggles
Here's a disaster waiting to happen, but I can't wait to be first in line to have it happen to me. Oakley, the performance eyewear company owned by Luxxotica, has announced the Airwave 1.5 Goggle, a set of ski goggles with WiFi,GPS, Bluetooth, an accelerometer, Facebook integration, and a heads-up display. It connects with your phone, so you can listen to your music and get … [Read more...]