Winter sports are generally a harsh thing to tackle at first with the cold temperatures always taking us à little by surprise, but having some new gear at your disposal is always nice to give us that little extra boost to go outside. This year, one obvious trend that there is going on are the all kinds of wearables that are coming out. Naturally, this new technology has a thing for sports as well and wearables for winter sports are starting to appear. They can make your life easier, help accomplish a certain task or simply be downright cool to use. Let’s take a look at some of the wearables made for winter that deserve a mention and what their uses are.
Full of Possibilities
Possibilities are wide when it comes to wearables for winter. The snow, the ice and the wind can have us all doing activities with our vision blurry, but a wearable can help you track some specific data more easily and give you the clarity that maybe your eyes and attention span can’t give you at that moment. That’s why sports like skiing are so adequate for wearables and the game is only getting started when it comes to getting down the slope in a more technological way. A little gadget can enhance the tracking of your own performance and your general enjoyment of the sport. Going down the same mountain can be repetitive, but a wearable can help you notice if you’re improving your technique, or downright taking a drop when it comes to your physical health. Surely, a wearable doesn’t need to be something that you use and look at at all times during a session, but it can help provide some cues to people who really do enjoy their sport and want to have all the information possibly available.
Take the Snow Cookie team for example (https://youtu.be/aA4EnL9n2kE) which enables you to analyze your skiing sessions afterwards. This kind of feedback can help any adept make more sense of his or her sessions by accessing relevant data. Skiing is a sport in which quantifying your performance can be hard, especially for less experienced skiers, as they’re just concentrating on staying safe and on track with where they’re going, but a simple look at their cellphone can bring back the images of when you went down the slope and had that thrill. This is exactly where the cool aspect of winter wearables come into play and how even those who are starting out can benefit from them. Wearables are about information, but also about enjoyment.
For All Type of Athletes
Of course, the technology doesn’t only come into play for casual athletes, but also professional ones. The Sochi Olympics saw all sorts of teams use gadgets to better track their performance and at times the technology is more advanced than we would initially think of, such as 3D body reproduction being possible in some cases. Professional athletes are the ones that are pushing all these companies to the max, because they need the most precision and consistency with the data. The regular consumer can then benefit from a product that was made with the top athletes in mind, but that you can use to go down the slope at your own rhythm. And then wearables will be on their way for athletes looking to put on a show as well – cams, analysis of air and height… better videos that were more easily put together could be on their way from various athletes. Or for athletes looking for real-time tracking, something like the Oakley Airwave (http://www.oakley.com/en/collection/airwave). The device is able to track important data such as speed in real-time, giving some more information to the advanced user. Need more or less speed before a jump? With the right gadget you should now be able to know.
Overall, wearables seem to be very well suited for winter sports. If you want to see more clearly into what you’re doing in the cold, be it during the activity or after, wearables are about to provide an interesting tracking option. Then, there’s also a security aspect that will be interesting to explore when it comes to wearables since they don’t only track yourself, but also your location on the mountain or elsewhere. Could it be easier for the rescue team to do their work if you can activate an emergency signal on your device, which is right at hand? We sure think so. Wearables for winter sports could quickly go from a simple gadget to a must-have item that regular adepts will use.
