I love skiing, but the fun is usually tempered by those long lines to take a slow chairlift back up to the top. Now that dull part could be history, if jetpack skiing ever catches on.

The fun of skiing is shooting down the mountain under your own power, feeling the mountain under your legs and how in control of yourself you are at high speeds. The Skizee turns you into a snowmobile. No thanks.

The Zeal Transcend GPS Goggles are some seriously futuristic ski goggles, featuring GPS as well as a micro LCD display right inside the googles themselves. This allows you to see real-time GPS data as well as speed, altitude, distance traveled, the temperature and other information on a screen that appears to hang about six feet in front of you.

For skiers, snowboarders and anyone who just wants to look like they belong in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, there's this here ColdAvenger, a mask that uses your own breath to keep you inhaling and exhaling in comfort, even in the cold....