Best Skiers:  What Eyewear Do They Prefer ( Part 1, Ladies Edition)

Best Skiers: What Eyewear Do They Prefer ( Part 1, Ladies Edition)

Newsfeed, Training & Outfitting
Eyewear is important. For skiers spending umpteen hours on the glittering snow it is, quite simply, indispensable part of the equipment. Yet "shades" are more than working instrument - hardly anything is more fashionable and is better known to make a statement about its owner - and that's the fact. We ain't going to delve into differences between materials used, sponsorship deals and other important but need-proper-research trivia that may or may not be of interest to you. We just aim to educate "skiing masses", so to speak, as to what their favorite athlete prefers - whenever we managed to identify not just the brand, but the specific model too, it will be mentioned as well All photos for this piece were taken during the Lahti Games at the beginning…
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Devices And Gadgets We’d Love To Have – But Can’t As Yet

Devices And Gadgets We’d Love To Have – But Can’t As Yet

Gear News, Money & Finance, Newsfeed
Cross country skiing is a technical sport where both the results and the fun of participating benefits hugely from advances of technology ( unless you're a die-hard retro race fan). Sadly, the size of the market for cross country skiing is a shadow of its fancy cousin, alpine skiing – and much smaller than, say, running or biking. Which means the innovations are headed first to them, where the fatter profits are to be made. Let's take a look at some of the latest – and dream that one day we, "the real skiers", could get similar. 1/Recon Snow2 Manufacturer says: A powerful omnifuncional computer in compact form and heads-up display, that attaches inside an alpine ski helmet and projects the data direct-to-eye, in real time. Without obstructing one's point…
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