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is watching the Winter Games getting you amped up for some slopeside fun here's a roundup of literally the best cool tech for your next mountain getaway very few people these days can truly unplug the different products that we've got going here our time-saving their seamless and they offer a way to access information when you're on the go one way to stay plugged in oakley's six hundred and fifty dollar air wave and recons four hundred dollar snow to both goggles feature a heads-up display a small screen on the lower right that shows information like your speed music track titles even text messages and more and this feature of these goggles trail maps so you know exactly which run you're on and it'll help you avoid making a wrong turn and ending a remote with oversized buttons lets you navigate through the screens even while wearing mittens next up gloves they aren't just for keeping warm this pair from bear tech which run one hundred and twenty dollars has a built-in bluetooth module why bluetooth if you're on a lift and you get a call it's much easier to answer the phone by doing this instead of digging for your phone fumbling with it and risking a 60-foot drop cell phones tend to be the number one lost item you see them drop from tear less often and we're there to scoop them up wireless bluetooth headphones like the 130 dollar chips also let you take calls easily and listen to tunes while shashing downhill the left earpiece doubles as a button for music controls live tickets are getting souped up to North Star California and its sister resorts offer epic mix an app that stores data collected by your lift ticket every day pass or season pass has an RF chip embedded in the plastic media and every time the customer goes through our gantry at the entrance to the lift it records that passage and then calculates the number of vertical feet for parents EPIK makes us a handy way to know what your kids were up to during ski school you can also access photos taken by resort photographers by far though the hands-down favorite gadget here is the GoPro the video camera that offers unique POV shots good images $400.00 apex goggles feature a built-in GoPro this way it's already built right into your eyewear and you have it with you all day so whatever you're seeing you can capture on video the apex also boasts Wi-Fi so you can stream your video the 130 dollar hitcase pro is a waterproof iPhone case with a wide-angle camera lens attached the case to the 50 dollar Chester mount and you've got a good GoPro alternative the only drawback of all this gadgetry those technical difficulties that drive you batty at home like dead batteries and weak network signals are much more annoying on the slopes still it's tech like this that lets shredders of all stripes relive their Mountain glory long after the lift stop running in Lake Tahoe I'm Zuma das CNET for CBS News