Some snowboarders got lost in the alps. The guy with the iPhone, Jason Tavaria, used the phone’s GPS to aid his rescue. Tragically, his friend did not make it.
The Gadget: It’s a wonder that the shoulder mounted boom box did not evolve into the music projection jacket. Either way, here’s a puffy one for snowboarding, with a mini amp and speaker system in the hood.
Snowboards are basically sticks. Lib-tech’s rocker-shaped bottoms and magne-traction edges are changing things up through tech and design for one of the most fun rides I’ve ever experienced.
The iPhone is great, until, one frosty day, you realise its capacitive touchscreen doesn’t work through gloves. So we tested three pairs of iPhone-friendly gloves to decide which were best.
The Gadget: Olympus’ waterproof, shockproof, coldproof—and hot-tubproof—10-megapixel pocket cam with new controls that work when you are gloved and freezing, as I discovered over the past weekend in Park City, UT.
Some tips for taking amazing photos on the slopes collected by Gadgetwise.
Slow motion makes everything more beautiful, even snow. Here’s a simple snowshoe hike during a storm, transformed by 300fps capture.
The Gadget: It’s the most simple phone I’ve used in ages. It calls, has an archaic UI, no frills, and a 1.3MB camera: Bleh! But it’s the most rugged outdoor mobile phone I’ve ever seen.
This beautiful, sharp video, captured with a Canon EOS 5D MarkII and a 15mm fisheye lens inside a protective canvas bag, really shows the mountain fun we’re missing here on the surprisingly-temperate East coast.
The Gadget: The Wham-O Snowball Blaster is an arm mounted slingshot/cannon thingy for snowballs. It has a mould on top for making three perfectly spherical snowballs.
