that tells you information about your character. In Halo, it shows you your shield. In Doom, it shows your own face, bloodied and as pulpy as raw hamburger. In Super Mario Bros. how many lives you have left. And so on.
It must have been gaming that got Recon Instruments thinking: you know where you need to keep track of all of that information? Skiing. Wipe out on the expert’s slopes and you are going to want to know, very quickly, how damaged you are, what the state of your shields are, and how many spare lives you have left.
Ingeniously, then, Recon Instruments came up with the idea for these Alpine Googles, which brag that they are the first goggles to ever contain a built-in heads up display. Their goggles also have a GPS unit, a web cam, an accelerometer, controls and are driven by a diminutive CPU, RAM and flash storage.
Fantastic! Where can I buy some? Well, you can’t: this, my friends, is what is called wishful thinking. While it would certainly be, in the parlance of our times, “dudical” to own a pair of HUD-toting ski goggles, this technology
would be more readily contracted by the military, not fired off out of the blue by a small company dedicated to extreme sports accessories.
Even so, I’ll be as eager as anyone to see these come out of the concept phase. And I don’t even ski.
