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SHREDZ – Snow Helmet Audio Reinvented
SHREDZ is an audio kit that you add to your snow helmet. It offers fantastic audio and gives you total command of your smartphone without getting in the way on the ski hill. Whether you want to listen to music as a backing to your boarding and skiing, or whether you want to stay in touch with friends on the hill it can deliver.
Since you’re not relying on earbuds you’ll still be able to hear your surroundings. Better yet, a sleek three button control at the back of the helmet allows you to interact with your device without needing to fumble with your jacket or remove your gloves.
It works even better if you have the Pebble Watch, allowing you to see who’s calling or incoming texts without digging your smartphone out of your jacket. Together SHREDZ and Pebble allow you to enjoy your day in the snow, and keep technology out of your way.
Outdoor Adventure Gear Business
SHREDZ comes from KEL52, led by Martin Sunstrum who is himself a skier and snowboarder. He has been skiing since he was a young kid and continues to this day thanks to close proximity to the Canadian Rocky Mountains. But he’s also very experienced in product design and electronics manufacturing which puts him in the perfect position to develop adventure sports equipment…
‘I also have over 25 years of product design and management experience in telecommunication, consumer electronics product design and off-shore manufacturing.’
The idea for SHREDZ came from his own frustrations in trying to listen to music and juggle phone calls and texts with his smartphone while skiing and snowboarding. After working to get input from numerous skiers, snowboarders and retailers, he and his team had a functioning and reliable prototype product that was ready for taking to the crowd via Kickstarter.
Taking to the Crowd
Now the product is available to back on Kickstarter where you can find out more about the whole feature set and get involved. They have 28 days to go and with 23 backers have already raised $2,070 CAD. Visit the project page here.
This is the first product from KEL52 but the hope is that they’ll develop many more products for the action/adventure sports crowd going forward once SHREDZ establishes itself in the marketplace.