A Team of Australian entrepreneurs have designed an alpine smart helmet that they say captures, tracks and shares the fun of snow sports safely.   

NO SNOW
Based in Sydney, where they say it hasn't snowed since 1922 the team at Forcite Helmet Systems say that the new design can capture, communicate, compete and protect.

Forcite Co-Founder, Alfred Boyadgis  said: "Imagine this technology as a superhuman companion who guides and captures your adventures."

DIFFERENCES
The Forcite team say that conventional helmets are basic polystyrene shells that offer protection, but little else. Other equipment such as lights, cameras, and communications have to be attached with cumbersome mounts. On impact anything attached to the helmet can weaken the polystyrene shell, potentially leading to head injuries as with the skiing accident involving Michael Schumacher.

The Forcite Alpine helmet  incorporates such technologies as an HD camera, speakers, impact sensors and a micro computer inside the helmet itself.  All of these functions are controlled by the Forcite Alpine's AI and a smart phone app.

SPECIFICATIONS
Safely positioned inside the front of the helmet is a full HD camera capable of capturing 1080 at 120fps video with image stabilization, which is perfect for slow motion shots on those bumpy off-piste runs. A wide-angle lens offers 160 degree field of view to capture every twist and turn.

Chat with groups of friends on the slopes or online with a noise cancelling, rugged design microphone that uses Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 technology to communicate with friends.

The stereo speakers double up to play tracks streamed via Bluetooth, and access call forwarding to connect to more friends as you carve up the slope.

In unison with the app, the Forcite Alpine smart helmet is designed to help compare and improve performance. The helmet also uses altitude determination to log the run on the Forcite  app or a third party app.

PROTECTION
Upon an intense impact, the helmet will emit an emergency beacon along with the altitude reading and GPS location of the person in trouble to snow park emergency teams. This beacon can also be turned on manually in an emergency.

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CHANGES
CEO of the Canadian company, John Chen, says that the lack of app choice for BlackBerry users is unfair in comparison with those available for users of Android and IOS platforms. 

He's calling for new legislation going forward to make app developers include versions for BlackBerry as well as Android and IOS. Chen is also looking for changes to the definition of 'net neutrality' to include 'application neutrality'. 

BOTH WAYS
Chen noted that BlackBerry's messenger app (BBM), was available to iPhone users, but other apps from Apple were not made available to all platforms. 

NETFLIX
He also expressed his anger that Netflix was discriminating against customers by not making their movie streaming service available to BlackBerry users. He said that this dynamic has created a two-tiered wireless broadband ecosystem which favours iPhone and Android users.

LETTER
The comments came to light in a blog post adapted from a recent letter that Chen sent to Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, John Thune, the Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Fred Upton, and Ranking Committee Members, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, and U.S. Representative Frank Pallone Jr.

SanDisk is one of a handful of companies affected by a breach of contract lawsuit in California, which has seen a sales halt placed on their solid state drives (SSD) for server platforms.

Both SanDisk and IBM incorporate products derived from Canadian company, Diablo Technology. While Lenovo, Huawei and Supermicro are also looking to offer ULLtraDIMMs in certain server platforms, and may be affected.

The Federal Court ordered a preliminary injunction against Diablo and its controller chips on behalf of Netlist Inc.

It's understood that Diablo deliberately took advantage of 'technology secrets' through a supply agreement they have with Netlist to gain a business advantage. 

Court Order 
Under the Court's order, Diablo and SanDisk are prohibited from manufacturing and selling the controller chipset used by SanDisk in their ULLtraDIMM SSD.  They are also prohibited from further sale or distribution of the ULLtraDIMM itself. 

A trial has been set for March 9, 2015. 

Rejection
SanDisk hoped to be able to sell existing inventory of the enjoined products, however, Judge Gonzalez Rogers rejected the company's motion for reconsideration. 

The Court found that the injunction properly barred SanDisk from selling these products after a careful review of the long contractual partnership between Diablo and SanDisk with respect to the ULLtraDIMM module.