Awesome Goggles

These ski/snowboarding goggles let you listen to your tunes as you zoom down the slopes. They feature open-air drivers and noise cancellation, and a single-ear mode when you need to hear your surroundings. Available with swappable double-layer lenses in Aurora Blue, Arctic Silver, and Sunrise Pink.

Rather than cover your eyes with hard plastic that fogs up like mad, these safety goggles are made with a mesh which allows airflow, while blocking most particles from getting through. Also available in a fine mesh version, which blocks more dust.

Microsoft wants to take augmented reality to a whole new level, with see-through goggles which can project full color interactive 3D objects into your field of vision. It’s still a prototype, but early hands-on users are impressed.

The Glyph is a mobile head-mounted display that doubles as a pair of headphones. It reflects 720p video directly to your retinas. It uses an HDMI input and lasts up to 3h per charge. Note that the Kickstarter reward is a beta unit.

Instead of slapping an add-on camera onto headgear, the iON is an 8mp/1080p HD camera built into a slick pair of impact and fog-resistant goggles. Its controls work through thick gloves too.

Sony promises a virtual screen size of over 750 inches with their 720p HD OLED head-mounted display, capable of showing movies and games in 3D, as well as 5.1 surround sound.

Engineered to help athletes better focus their vision “on the ball”, and enhancing object tracking these high-tech glasses use an LCD shutter similar to 3D glasses. Example visual drills here.

Recon Instruments and Zeal Optics’ Transcend Goggles are the first with a HUD and feature integrated GPS; they’re able to display performance data, temperature, time, and more.

Oakley’s A Frame goggles get the L-R-G treatment: in addition to integrated surge ports, and anti-fog inner lens, they’ll get a mirror polished black finish and Gold Iridium lens.

Based on a 1940s design used by pilots, these Bentley Leather Goggles are ideal for unforgettable midnight snack runs; be sure to get the matching Bentley Leather Flying Helmet, too.

Carl Zeiss’ Cinemizer is the first pair of video glasses to be officially approved by Apple for use with the iPod or iPhone; it’s the equivalent of viewing a 45″ screen from six feet away.