The Vikersundbakken, a 134m record-setting ski ramp, opened this week in southern Norway. It didn’t take long for someone to put it to good use: earlier today, 25-year-old ski flyer Johan Remen Evensen set the world record with a mind-boggling 240m jump. Good thing he stuck the landing. [Wired] More »
New York looked like snow zombieland last week, but that didn’t stop some crazy people to enjoy the deserted, snow-loaded streets in the middle of the blizzard. This guy got his skis and a car, and had a lot of fun. More »
While these actual, real, strap-’em-to-your-hands-and-navigate-ski-slopes gloves are, you know, real, I much preferred the GPS gloves concept from two years ago. Give me a bionic hand over insulated glove any day of the week. More »
The Gadget: It’s a snowboarding multitool with screwdriver and wrench, as well as a tape measure, bottle opener and tobacco pipe.
Gore-Tex is about to take another step forward in its dominance of artificial wet weather skin. Now, they can fuse together outer layers with foreign inner layers, to two great results.
It isn’t the first balance board-enabled ski game for the Wii, but it sure looks like it’ll be the best. With the weird and richly varied balance board hacks cropping up all over the place, it’s good — though late — for Nintendo to finally demonstrate a game that looks worthy of the device. [Kotaku]
