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This week I finally put together the components for my new, increased security, snowboarding helmet. I spent more than an hour in customs on Tuesday morning clearing the forms for the import of the Giro Remedy helmet that is the base of it all.
The point of a helmet in sports these days isn't just to save your life, although I was recently reminded quite violently of this aspect, but also to make the whole sporting experience more enjoyable.
As a result, my new helmet now has an embedded bluetooth audio system that links up to my mobile phone. This means I can answer a phone call and talk to someone without taking off my helmet and without using my hands. It also means that I can have my phone act as an MP3 player and listen to some 8 gigs of music while I'm snowboarding or skiing. On the audio side the BT system also supports a secondary hard-wired audio connection that could be used for instance for a two-way radio attached to the top of the shoulder armour.
I've been using an Action Camera attached to my helmet to film things for a while now. Unfortunately, after several bigger incidents, although the Oregon Scientific ATC3K itself survived many of its attachment components were irreparably damaged or simply destroyed. This meant that I had to attach the much simpler no name action camera I got from Maplin's to this helmet instead. Let's just hope it will be able to handle the pain.
See you on the slopes!
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