Goggles of the Future "HUD" Heads up Display

I love to snowboard; I can never get enough of it. So when i hear about new technologies being incorporated into the ski industry I get pretty excited. Several goggle companies this year are putting out a new goggle that allows you to track top speed, distance traveled, air times on jumps, vertical and horizontal distances and so much more. All of this is displayed in the bottom corner of your goggles. Know you can record your entire statistic for that day of ridding. This could help winter alleles can they can see specifically how fast they hit a jump and how much distance the covered before they land. Making the rider and there equipment more in tuned. I know right when I’m about to hit a jump the speed I’m approaching with is important and these goggles could help evaluate rider stress making the rider preform move smoothly adding style to the riders tricks. “HUD” has been used since World War II and is being incorporated into environments more and more. Most new cars have used this technology to improve the driver’s awareness.  Army has also been using this new technology incorporating it into the battle field allowing soldier’s to see real time data of the battle field. The HUD could give locations display maps and distance to targets. HUD’s in my opinion can improve our daily lives so we have an ethical responsibility to incorporate them into our daily lives. Now cell phone companies are looking at using HUDs for their phones using a monocle type lens that you would place in your eye and the screen in the monocle would display all your smart phone information. There might be some negative implications from this technology but looking at it from a utilitarianism point of view this technology will benefit more people that it could harm.  There are three major brand that have put out HUD goggles this year and the y include: Okaly, Smith and Zeal.

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