Winter is almost upon us and time to start thinking “snow”. While living in the French Alps, Richard Kirby, then an engineer and product manager for Hewlett Packard, took his expertise to the slopes. Because of Kirby’s melding of science and sports, serious skiers can improve their racing form by attaching a small computer to their skis. The marriage of computers and snow led to the vLink Racing Computer which has been used by elite US ski team members during training to analyze their line… Details