Forget Google Glass, Oakley has started off the post-Lance era with a bang.

Heads up display is comingg to ski goggles, though I suppose you could ride in them if you wanted to, or sit around the house in them, pretending to be rad.

The feature list includes just about everything except laser beam incineration, and I’m damn glad I’m not an actual journalist so I don’t have to list all that bullshit out here, but suffice to say, you can do some freaky shit. Sync to your iPhone, is one example. Track friends and get GPS display to help you find your way home are some others.

Being officially Old and Cranky, I’m bound to be a little snarky about this sort of thing, but less so than some. Surely (or “surly”) anyone who believes something as quaint as riding while wearing headphones to be a sin will have to feel wearing these googles is tantamount to full-scale Satanism.

Just how much is packed into these goggles? According to CNET, they’re pretty “boss.”

Featuring a passel of sensors including GPS, Bluetooth, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, and more, the Airwave is meant to give skiers an entirely new level of information about where they are and what they’re doing than has been possible before.

Like it or not, you have to admit this looks a lot like the future. The semi-intrusive, blinky and beepy future, wherein one gathers a great deal of information about what one is currently doing, as opposed to doing it.

Finally for this long, long week, a truly bizarre opportunity presented itself for Project Danzig today. I can’t talk about it, which is good, because probably nothing will come of it. If it did, though, two of my planets would align. I’ve heard good things about that happening.

Either way, more Danzig next week, assuming I make it there to join you.