Snow goggles are a necessity but sometimes this piece of our winter kit can take a big bite out of our wallets–especially given how prone they are to scratching and getting lost each season. Both K2 and Giro answered our plea and created snow goggles that are both high-tech and affordable–sure you may not get the multiple lens change options but these goggles will leave you will plenty of leftover beer money for après time.
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Certain colors elicit certain moods and changing the shade can change how we feel and even affect our behavior or performance. Marketers most definitely understand this. In their new line of snow goggles, Uvex takes advantage of the effect different colors have on us by providing a variety of colored lenses to match every weather situation and mood.
Switching out your goggle lenses as the conditions change on the mountain makes the experience that much more enjoyable and some could argue safe. But with most interchange goggles, it’s a tedious and brute force task at best. To let you focus on skiing and not your snow goggles, Giro has made switching your lenses as simple as pushing a button.
Almost all ski and snowboard gear has adapted to the growth in backcountry or freeride skiing, so why not snow goggles? Much like sunglasses tend to fog when you ride your bike slowly uphill, snow goggles start to fog the minute you stop moving fast. We all know that pulling sunglasses a bit away from your face usually solves the problem, so why can’t you do this with goggles? Well now you can.
Many snow goggle brands are now integrating POV cameras, enabling you to ditch those pesky helmet and ski pole mounts (a potential problem for the snow selfie lovers). For this winter season, Zeal updated their popular HD camera goggles with more advanced specs–meet the Zeal HD2.
Do your feet tend to get cold while playing ouside in winter? Normal foot warming solutions such as boot heaters and disposable toe warmers are bulky and don’t always work as directed. New company Digitsole hopes to fix the cold toes problem with battery-powered heated insoles that you control remotely with your phone.