Casco ski helmets keep your goggles in place with magnets
Dan Seitz If you’ve ever been skiing, you know one of the little annoyances is your goggles. You need them because otherwise you’re pretty much blind, but you also have to strap them to the back of your head. After a while, it begins to get a wee bit uncomfortable, and if the strap gets twisted or dislocated for some reason, especially while you’re on the slopes, you’re in real trouble.
Leave it to the Germans, specifically sporting goods maker Casco, to solve this problem. With magnets.
This is a solution so elegant and simple, it’s a little surprising nobody’s come up with it before now. Simply design a helmet with a few connection points, install magnets in the goggles, and you’ve got goggles that click on and stay on until you want to take them off. Or hit a tree. We guess eating some wood at 30mph would knock these loose, but really, if that happens, you’ve got bigger problems.
It is true you’ll have to buy a Casco helmet to go with your Casco goggles, but if you’re skiing without a helmet, you’re kind of doomed anyway. Casco also cleverly has designed a line of these for kids, and if you’ve ever tried to get goggles onto a screaming brat, you know exactly how much money Casco is going to collect. Now if they’ll just be smart enough to not use “Magnets, how do they work?” in their advertising materials…
Casco Ski Goggles [Gizmag]
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