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Shannan Yates wins 2010 Freeride World Tour!

Zeal Optics team rider Shannan Yates wins 2010 Freeride World Tour at Squaw’s Legendary Tram Face

Squaw Valley, USA – March 1, 2010 – The third stage of the Freeride World Tour was held today Monday on the Silverado venue in Squaw Valley USA. With its playful terrain the riders put up a great show for the hundreds of cheering locals, pushing the limits with a ‘best of two runs’ format. The high point of the day was the women stepping up the game with a great level of riding, taking the same big cliff jumps as the men and creative line choices.

Women Snowboard
1- Shannan Yates (USA)
2- Aline Bock (GER)
3- Susan Mol (USA)

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The Transcend GPS Frenzy Continues!

Just a few reviews of the upcoming Zeal Optics Transcend GPS goggle.

outdoorindustry.org - Zeal Optics New TRANSCEND Goggle Wins 2010-2011 ISPO Boardsports Award
nbc.com - Line Of Sight: Transcend GPS goggle
Twitter / Engadget: Zeal Optics bringing GPS, Sensor-laden goggle to market…
Zeal Optics bringing GPS, sensor-laden Transcend ski goggles to market http:// bit.ly/ccu45l.

Transcend ski goggles with GPS – too high-tech to be true?
Mobile Computing News
… 2010 • Category: Uncategorized Users might be forgiven for thinking that the new Transcend GPS ski goggles, a collaboration between Zeal Optics and …

European Navigation Event Blog » Zeal Optics has created GPS Snow …
Eyewear company Zeal Optics has partnered with Recon Instruments to create snow goggles with GPS along with advanced optics and headsup display …

Coming Fresh | » Zeal Optics Trascend GPS Ski Goggles
Trending from the head up display’s available on planes and in some cars now, Zeal Optics has created ski goggles that allow consumers to view information directly inside their goggles. These bad boys will display GPS info, speed, …
Coming Fresh - http://www.comingfresh.com/ 
Zeal Transcend – Heads up display equipped ski goggles - The Red …
Minimum interaction is required during use, sleek graphics and smart optics are complete non-obtrusive for front and peripheral version make it the ultimate solution for use in fast-paced environments. Tags: gadget, zeal+transcend, …
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Zeal Optics Transcend Ski Goggles Feature Futuristic HUDGoggles …
The Zeal Optics Transcend Ski Goggles feature a heads-up-display that shows GPS, speed and altitude information to a rider in real time.

The Awesomer » Recon-Zeal Transcend Goggles
Recon-Zeal Transcend Goggles. $350-$450 Buy It · Hat Tip. Recon Instruments and Zeal Optics‘ Transcend Goggles are the first with a HUD and feature integrated GPS; they’re able to display performance data, temperature, time, and more. …
The Awesomer - http://theawesomer.com/

Ski goggles feature head mounted display
Wow, these Zeal Optics “Transcend” goggles feature built-in GPS, speed data, altitude information, temperature, and a whole lot of other stuff for $350. Everything’s controlled by three buttons on the side of the goggles and displayed …
Doug Aamoth… - http://www.yaamo.com/

The best ski goggles ever from Transcend | Skiing Dot IE
Zeal Optics and Recon Instruments have come together to offer this amazing piece of skiing kit. These bad boys have an integrated GPS sensor in them which is capable of calculating the skiers speed / altitude and position on the …
Irish Skiers Online - http://www.skiing.ie/ 

Transcend Ski Goggles | GADSTA
Available this fall for between $350 and $450, Transcend goggles are a partnership between two companies: Zeal Optics and Recon Instruments. The result is a pair of goggles that contain hardware to measure speed, altitude, time, …
GADSTA - http://gadsta.com/ 

Zeal Optics Transcend Ski Goggles Feature Futuristic HUD [Goggles …
Zeal Optics, the Boulder, Colorado-based manufacturer of ski and snowboard goggles and optics, has created a new heads-up-display system that is integrated directly into a new kind of goggle. The Zeal Optics Transcend goggles feature a …
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Zeal Optics Transcend Ski Goggles Video
Zeal Optics Transcend Ski Goggles - GPS equipped, HUD By engadget Tags : engadget, engadget video, goggles, ski, skiing, transcend, video, zeal optics.

Zeal Optics Transcend Ski Goggles Feature Futuristic HUD [Goggles …
Zeal Optics, the Boulder, Colorado-based manufacturer of ski and snowboard goggles and optics, has created a new heads-up-display system that is integrated .

Zeal Optics bringing GPS sensorladen Transcend ski goggles to …
Remember those mind-melting Recon Instruments goggles that we caught wind of late last year? Admit it — you never, ever expected those things to act.

Ski Goggle with HUD « Soldier Systems
Zeal Optics and Recon Instruments have teamed up to release the new Head Up Display equipped Transcend ski goggle in the fall. The design has already received the 2010-2011 ISPO Boardsports Award for the top product. …
Soldier Systems - http://soldiersystems.net/ 

Recon Instruments - Zeal Optics. Transcend Goggle ~ Tactical World
Recon Instruments - Zeal Optics. Transcend Goggle. From the home of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games, Recon Instruments is passionately leading the innovation of customized solutions for direct-to-eye communications. …
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Zeal Optics bringing GPS, sensor-laden Transcend ski goggles to …
Despite your pessimism, it seems as if those really specs have been in truth creation a direct route to a consumer realm, with Zeal Optics jumping in, operative a bit of sorcery and relabeling ‘em Transcend. Deemed a planet’s initial …
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Zeal Optics :: Transcend - Mixx
Zeal Optics Transcend GPS Goggle. … zealoptics.com — Zeal Optics Transcend GPS Goggle. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter …

Digital Buyologie: Zeal Optics | Transcend
Zeal Optics | Transcend. Posted by by Hedon at 12:49 AM. Labels: digital. 0 comments: Post a Comment. Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Quotes on Design … loading … DigitaLabels …
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Zeal Optics bringing GPS, sensor-laden Transcend ski goggles to …
Zeal Optics bringing GPS, sensor-laden Transcend ski goggles to market. via engadget.com · Loading mentions Retweet. Comments (0). Leave a comment… To leave a comment on this posterous, please login by clicking one of the following. …
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Transcend – GPS Integrated Goggles | flylyf
Zeal Optics In cooperation with Reco Instruments has developed a snow goggle with integrated “Head Mounted Display” system. With the push of a button the rider can call up data right in front of his/her eyes and like a jet pilot display …
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Transcend Ski Goggles. They Bring Out the Cyborg in You. « Indexed
These goggles by Zeal Optics and Recon Instruments offer a speedometer, temperature gauge, odometer, stopwatch, clock and GPS, with a promise for features such as maps, text, caller ID, camera integration, MP3 player integration and …
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DO WANT: Ski Goggles HUD « QuantumTom
Wow, these Zeal Optics “Transcend” goggles feature built-in GPS, speed data, altitude information, temperature, and a whole lot of other stuff for $350. via Ski goggles feature head mounted display. …
QuantumTom - http://www.quantumtom.com/ 

The Future is Finally Here - Get On My Hype
via engadget.com. Holy crap! This is some James Bond 007 shit! I want these yesterday!! Zeal Optics bringing GPS, sensor-laden Transcend ski goggles to market… Loading mentions Retweet …
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Ski Goggles With GPS, Altitude Display, and More
Watching the Winter Olympics has snow sports on the top of my mind, so I was excited to see the super high-tech Zeal Optics Transcend ($350) GPS-enabled ski …

Transcend Is Zeal Optics‘ HDM Fitted Goggles with GPS Capabilities …
Transcend Is Zeal Optics‘ HDM Fitted Goggles with GPS Capabilities - Surprising, I’d say.

The Angry Snowboarder » Blog Archive » 2011 Trends
Meanwhile Zeal optics offers a H.U.D in one of their goggles. Drop Goggles and Gloves. On the fashion side of things the Tall Tee in the snowboard world is dying. Yes, sadly rocking a cotton ghetto gown is just not as fashionable as it …
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Transcend Ski Goggles from Zeal Optics | Trends Updates
There is no denying the fact that skiing is a fun-filled adventure. You could add more fun to this adventure sport by arming yourself with a pair of Zeal.

Gadget Review: New gadgets Goggles
A company called Zeal Optics, which is aiming to change the technology that is implicated in skiing and created gadgets goggles. Transcend goggles is Zeal Optics work together with a company called Recon implement to create the …
Gadget Review - http://thegadgetsreview.blogspot.com/ 

Latest Transcend Ski Goggles | Instring
This latest goggle is made by Zeal Optics. And To make this Transcend goggles, Zeal Optics work together with a company named Recon instruments to produce the ideal pair of ski goggles. It comes with great features and design, …
Instring - http://instring.com/ 

YouTube - Zeal Optics Transcend Ski Goggles
Not even Bono can pull off wearing huge glasses to use a HUD through life. But ski goggles? They’re practically designed to look ludicrous. These Zeal Recon …

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The Transcend Ski Goggles
A company called zeal optics, which is the goal of changing technology that is involved in skiing, created glasses. To create Transcend glasses, Optics zeal collaborated with a company called Recon instruments to create the perfect pair …
Latest Tech and Gadget News - http://www.techblog.ws/ 

Transcend HUD Goggles | Airline-Advisor.com
Augmented reality seems to be what many companies are trying to achieve with a variety of new products coming out. Enter a partnership between Zeal Optics and Recon Instruments; through and amalgam… Read the full post at Gear Patrol. …
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Zeal Optics Transcend Ski Goggles | Goggles Ski

Not even Bono can pull off wearing huge glasses to use a HUD through life. But ski goggles? They’re practically designed to look ludicrous. These Zeal Recon.

Goggles Ski - http://www.gogglesski.com/

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Zeal Optics Transcend on TV 8

Interview with Zeal Optics owner+designer Michael T. Jackson and Recon Instruments.

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Zeal Optics Transcend wins ISPO boardsports Awards 2010

ISPO (the largest European Snowsports Trade Show) announces the Zeal Optics Transcend GPS-enabled Goggle the 2010 Winner for accessories.

The snowboard industry has a lot of new products to offer for next season. Following in-depth evaluation the international jury selected those products which showed the highest degree of sustainable, user-friendly, and technical details.

Winner – Zeal Optics Transcend Goggle

In cooperation with Recon Instruments Zeal Optics developed a snow goggle with integrated “Head
Mounted Display” system. With the push of a button the rider can call up data right in front of his/her
eyes and like a jet pilot display information such as speed, altitude, temperature, time, GPS location,
and stop watch. The jury considers the “Transcend Goggle” an excellent example of applied
“Wearable Technology” and selected it as the winner in the category Accessories.

-ISPO

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Zeal Transcend Goggle in Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics - Top Picks from the 2010 Ski and Snowboard Industry Trade Show

Snow is dumping across much of the United States this winter and the Vancouver Olympics are set to launch with American skiers and snowboarders enjoying unprecedented World Cup competitiveness. So it was an ideal time to check in at the Snowsports Industries America (SIA) annual trade show, which opened yesterday in Denver. The show includes more than 3000 exhibitors overflowing with gear aimed at retail buyers shopping for deliveries next fall. Out of that blizzard of equipment, here are five products and trends that piqued our interest.

Zeal Optics Transcend - Heads-Up Goggle Display

If you want a heads-up display to read off stats like altitude, speed and latitude and longitude, you could spend many millions on a fighter jet, many thousands on a luxury car, or $350 on a pair of goggles. The Zeal Transcend is one of those high-end, early-adopter toys that could have seemed annoyingly unnecessary in real life. In fact, it hit a sweet spot: undeniably superfluous yet completely cool. The goggles, built with technology produced by a company called Recon Instruments, incorporate an accelerometer, air pressure sensor, thermometer and SKYTRAQ 65 GPS chip. (This is one more bit of evidence that we’re entering a location-based future in which GPS chips are built into everything.) The data isn’t actually projected on the lens, thank goodness. It shows up on a tiny screen embedded in the lower right part of the frame. (If you’re far-sighted, this isn’t the product for you.) The data can be extracted via mini-USB, and will include information like maximum speed, how high the user jumped in the terrain park, and where a backcountry adventurer has wandered. The goggles more or less reproduce the functionality of lots of sports watches already on the market. And it may be that the display would be distracting in the mountains, as opposed to a convention center. But we want a pair anyway.

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Zeal Optics is sponsoring the first parapelegic summit of kilimanjaro!

We are headed to Africa to summit Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania with two challenged athletes. Our goal is to raise awareness for individuals with physical challenges so they can participate and compete in the sports they love with portions of the proceeds to benefit the Challenged Athletes Foundation. By providing opportunities and resources needed for active lifestyles, CAF enhances these individuals’ self-esteem, independence and quality of life.

In January of 2010, we start our journey from Los Angeles International Airport and head towards Tanzania, and we would like to invite all of you to follow along!

Here we will frequently be keeping you all up to date on our progress before, during, and after the climb.

Keep checking back!

Hi everyone!
We have arrived safely in Africa, after a 30 hour flight from Los Angeles, through Minneapolis with a four hour layover at Amsterdam. The approach into Kilimanjaro airport was a little rough, due to the winds that blow across the plain around Arusha and as it was dark when we landed, we didn’t really get to see much. Fortunately, all our luggage (17 bags, 2 wheelchairs, one extra set of Magic Wheels and the trusty poles, as well as a pile of hand luggage) arrived safely and we were met by the reps from Thomson Safaris who helped us clear customs quickly and expeditiously.

It took a little time to load the luggage and chairs onto the jeeps - think African safari jeeps that hold 8 people with the bags (and chairs) strapped to the roof (we’ll try and get some pictures up tomorrow) and then we set out on the final leg - a short drive to our accommodation at Rivertrees lodge. The temperature is high seventies and as we headed across the plain, you could make out the silhouette of Mount Meru (around 15,000 ft). No sight of Kilimanjaro yet!

Right now we are sitting at a late dinner in the open veranda restaurant at Rivertrees, which is really more luxurious that any of us had anticipated! The rooms each have their own unique character: Chris and Matt’s room have two trees growing through it; Erica and Tara’s has a plush raised bath tub; Zak and Phil’s room has a picture of a zebra, which Zak has just told me is his favorite animal; and Penny and Derek’s room has two mosquito-net-draped 4-poster beds.

Sleep might be hard tonight as everyone slept on the plane and we are all somewhat affected by the 11 hour time difference! But tomorrow we have a day to recover from the flight with a short hike and a little safari trip planned through Arusha National Park before our pre-climb briefing in the late afternoon. So we’re all heading to our respective rooms to try and get some sleep.

Talk more tomorrow. I can’t wait to get a glimpse of the mountain when we get up in the morning!

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This is my last post from the US! Penny and Erica getting ready to head to Amsterdam. Farewell.

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1 flight down, 2 long ones to go. In Minneapolis for a moment.

• DG

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All checked in.

• DG

PS It’s my birthday.

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Zeal Optics SwapIt Review

Zeal Optics’ Swap-It Deuce: Water-Friendly Eyewear

I live in a town between two lakes. It also happens to have the Sacramento River running smack dab though the middle of it, so needless to say I’ve lost more than my share of sunglasses to the water gods over the years.

So, apparently, have the people at Zeal Optics, because they’ve designed a pair of sunglasses that’ll take everything that a body of water can dish out.

Zeal has taken their passion for performance eyewear to new places with their Swap-It Deuce ($150). They’ve taken their super-clear ZB-13 polarized lenses and put them in a frame that features removable goggles to keep water from splashing in wearer’s eyes as well as a removable head strap to keep that from falling off your head in rough water.

The key work in that last paragraph is “removable”. The goggle liners and head strap can be taken off the frame so you can wear them on land without fear of ridicule, and in contrast to many performance frames that look bizarre anywhere but on a trail, these frames look pretty dang sharp.

What all this adds up to is a pair of sunglasses that will keep you comfortable and looking good anywhere you go.

view full article - http://www.uncooped.com/billy-brown/posts/1100-zeal-optics-swap-it-deuce-water-friendly-eyewear

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Zeal Optics named official eyewear sponsor of Ben Koons in 2010 Olympics

Zeal Optics is proud to sponsor Cross Country skier Ben Koons (NZ) in the 2010 Olympic Games. Let’s go for gold! Check him out at: http://www.nordicnz.com/benkoons

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Zeal Goggle Tech Video

Zeal Optics co-owner and designer Michael T Jackson explains Zeal Optic’s exclusive Polarized + Photochromatic lens technology at BroadbandSports.com.





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Zeal Optics Maestro Review at 3luxe.com

“3Luxe: Simply the best of everything!”

Zeal Optics Maestro :

When you’re on a long peddling trip on a warm day, there’s nothing more annoying than your shades continually slipping down your nose as you start to sweat. It takes a hand off the handlebars unnecessarily and that’s never a good thing. The Zeal Optics Maestro cycling sunglasses eliminates that problem with hydro-philic silicon ear and nose pads that become stickier as you sweat. These “Best Of” cycling sunglasses deliver style, durability and great optics. The Maestro’s copper tints enhance depth and clarity, allowing you to go faster and harder in and out of glare and shadows. The big lenses follow the curvature of the eye and reach back for superior peripheral coverage. Protection from wind and sunlight is near absolute, and co-molded nylon and silicon temples segue into steel on both sides of the metal hinges which are spring-loaded to cradle your head securely. The Maestro’s fashion-forward sculpting of the matte nylon frames make them as street-worthy as they are sporty.

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