Dec 11
On these frigid days, it helps to think about a place like Antarctica, which was recently determined to be without a doubt the coldest place on Earth
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Dec 09
Is there anything more soul crushing than waking up and checking the weather on your phone, only to discover that there are inches of snow outside waiting to complicate your morning commute? Snow in the forecast doesn’t always have to be a letdown, though. With this steam-bent wooden toboggan from Lucky Bums, you’ll embrace every flake that falls.
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Dec 06
This might look like result of some pro-level CGI, or perhaps even a glimpse into your imagination, but in fact it’s a photograph taken in Antarctica just this last week.
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Nov 26
NASA has just published this true color photograph of the United States taken from space by the Suomi satellite. It’s going to be a rough Thanksgiving, folks:
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Nov 23
You need to see how incredibly awesome Disney’s new animated snow technology is. They created it for Frozen—their new (non-Pixar) 3D animation feature. This video presented at the latest Siggraph shows how it works:
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Nov 21
There have been only a few Nike shoes with LEDs, but these snowboard boots take the top prize, thanks to 30 LEDs implanted into the swoosh on each boot. You definitely won’t be invisible on your next night run down the slopes.
The Nike LunarENDOR Quickstrike Snowboard boot is powered by a built-in lithium ion battery, that’s controlled by a power button in the boot’s cuff. The boot comes with Lunarlon foam to improve the plushness of your ride. There’s a customizable flex line system, allowing you to choose between three levels of stiffness.
As you’d expect, all of this tech doesn’t come cheap. The regular LunarENDOR boots sell for $430(USD), so I can only imagine how much the Quickstrike LED model will sell for.
Nov 07
When you’ve got a foot of freshly fallen snow to absorb any impact, there’s no sledding stunt that seems too dangerous. It’s only when you’re careening down a hill towards a jump that the gravity of the situation hits you, and that’s when you realize a sled with a built-in shock absorbing spring like the Yooner is a wonderful idea.
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Oct 10
As beautiful as it is to wake up to a fresh snowfall, the honeymoon’s soon over when you realize it’s up to you to clear a path for your car. You can go the shovel route and risk a heart attack, opt for a gas-powered snow blower and risk going deaf, or have at it with a corded model and risk electrocution. Thankfully there’s one other safer and quieter solution with Joe Snow’s new iON18SB rechargeable snow blower that runs on batteries.
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Aug 12
Shoveling your vehicle out of a mountain of fresh snow in the morning is not only a terrible way to start your day, it could be downright dangerous if you’re not in the best of shape. A snowblower is a far better alternative, but who wants to drop all that money when there’s the risk of a snow-free winter? Toro agrees, and is now offering a full refund to anyone who buys a new snowblower and never has the chance to use it.
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Aug 05
It’s still sunny and warm here in Chicago, but Winter is only a few months off if you can believe it. If you live somewhere that it snows occasionally, but don’t want to spend money on a snowblower for fear that it won’t actually snow this season? We’ll thanks to Toro, you can buy with confidence this Fall.
The lawn and garden tool maker is offering a special guarantee this year. If you buy a Toro snowblower between now and November 15, 2013 – and it snows less than 10 percent of your area’s average snowfall between October 1, 2013 and April 30, 2014 – you’ll get your money back. Plus, you still get to keep the snowblower. Should it snow less than 50 percent of your area’s average, you’ll get a 10 percent refund of the purchase price. Not a bad deal, I say.
Head on over to Toro’s S’No Risk website for more details, and to look up the historical snowfall averages for your zipcode and to register your snowblower.
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