And hundreds of phones, tablets, and other devices like alpine ski goggles and NASA satellites.

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Putting Luckey's stereoscopic ski goggles in the hands of game developers is key to the Rift's success.

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Saxe envisions other applications for his electrified glass--eyeglasses, tinted car windows, ski goggles.

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Add to it that someone receiving information in a set of ski goggles is probably seeing that information while bombing down a slope.

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Oakley recently launched Airwave - ski goggles with built-in sensors which provide information on an in-built screen about an owner's speed, the size of their jumps and what music they are listening to.

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Is it really any surprise that every year the lost and found warehouses thousands of items, including hundreds of wallets, passports, eyeglasses and cellphones, along with more bizarre misplaced objects such as dive goggles, ski boots, a Superman costume, a ladder, and even a dog?

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If you think buying goggles is as simple as walking into a ski shop and asking for advice you are badly mistaken.

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