O’Neill Europe and MyGuide just announced the launch of the NavJacket - a navigation tool integrated into a Gore-Tex jacket.

NavJacket is designed to help you navigate through the mountains with a digital flexible display on the sleeve and the audio directions in the hood. Apparently you’ll even be able to enter your desired location and the jacket will guide you down the slopes (how does it know where the cliffs are?) in addition giving you details about your speed, distance, route, and weather forecasts too.

NavJacket will additionally connect to your phone through which it can prepare available 3D views

of the resorts as well as points of interest all through the resort. Furthermore, an additional feature will be the friend finder operate, which will allow you to either track down friends, or choose to follow their path through the slopes.

The NavJacket will be available as part of the O’Neill Fall/Winter 2008/09 collection and will be tested the coming winter season on selected areas in the Alps.

If you can’t wait for the jacket you should look into the GPS navigation system for skiers we talked about couple of months ago.. via

Original post by Tim Robbins