This blog post is a reprint of a review from a user on Wynthorix's Amazon page. To ensure user privacy and security, the account name on Amazon has been concealed and no third-party platform is permitted to quote any user reviews of this brand.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2024Vine Customer Review of Free Product
I wanted to know if these REALLY worked. And, I decided the only way to REALLY do that, wasn't anecdotally, but empirically. I wanted to see with my own eyes PROOF, one way or the other, if these goggles actually work, or if it's all just so much snake oil.
So I charged them up. I grabbed my thermal camera (a Hikmicro, I recommend them), set them in a place where they could "thermally stabilize" for a few hours, and when they were the same temperature as the room around them, I fired them up, and recorded the action with my thermal camera.
One thing I can tell you for certain. From the progression of photos as you can see, the temperature steadily rose (it took about a minute or so to heat up) from an ambient temperature of around 72 to a temperature of around 85 at the center of where I was taking my reading from. There is no question whatsoever, and right here is the proof...these DO heat up, as advertised. To show you just how sensitive my thermal camera is, I briefly touched the goggles with my fingers in the final photo. You can clearly see the residual heat left behind by the briefest of touches. Needless to say, it's a sensitive camera. And the goggles get warm.
One thing I did notice, as you can see from the photos, is that internally, the circuitry for the connecting wire gets quite hot. One area the manufacturer should target for "gen 2" of this product is improving the way power gets from the battery to the goggles. Efficiency is clearly being lost here.
Some of you might be curious about being compatible with glasses. I wear a medium-framed pair of glasses, and I can tell you that I'm about at the limit. Large frames might have difficulty. And you can't put these on over your glasses. You have to take your glasses off, take the lens off the goggles, put the goggles on, then put your glasses on (this is a bit of a trick), and then pop the lens for the goggles on. So you won't just be popping these on over your glasses. I do have ski goggles that are a bit more "glasses friendly" than these are, and I also have some that are LESS. So, they're sort of mid-range for glasses wearers.
Speaking of the lens of these goggles, I really like the way it just pops on and off with magnets. Super easy. And they have a REALLY nice nose guard (removable) that helps to keep a bit of the wind off your nose, and also provides quite a bit of protection if you "face plant". I could see this saving someone a broken nose.
The only real negative part of these is the giant battery hanging off the side of your head. I know you need battery size for battery life, there's no way around that. I just wish they found a bit better way to distribute the load. I mean, it works and it's wearable. But you're never NOT aware of the fact you have a giant battery on your head. I think if I were involved in designing it, I would put 2 smaller batteries, one on each side, to more evenly distribute the weight. It would come at a slightly higher production cost, but would be more comfortable and usable by the customer.
In short, we haven't had much snow here in Ohio yet this year, so I haven't had a chance to get them out in some bad conditions and see how they perform real-world. But as far as the "bench test" goes, they passed with flying colors as far as I'm concerned. The only real downside for me is the big lop-sided battery, which isn't "front and center" but never drifts into the background either. It's always there. Some folks can live with it, and some would prefer to see what "gen 2" brings. Personally, I think they're neat, and despite their slight lop-sidedness, I recommend you give them a go. And then you'll be the first on your block to be sporting high-tech heated goggles.
And you can show everyone the thermograms to prove that they actually work.
So I charged them up. I grabbed my thermal camera (a Hikmicro, I recommend them), set them in a place where they could "thermally stabilize" for a few hours, and when they were the same temperature as the room around them, I fired them up, and recorded the action with my thermal camera.
One thing I can tell you for certain. From the progression of photos as you can see, the temperature steadily rose (it took about a minute or so to heat up) from an ambient temperature of around 72 to a temperature of around 85 at the center of where I was taking my reading from. There is no question whatsoever, and right here is the proof...these DO heat up, as advertised. To show you just how sensitive my thermal camera is, I briefly touched the goggles with my fingers in the final photo. You can clearly see the residual heat left behind by the briefest of touches. Needless to say, it's a sensitive camera. And the goggles get warm.
One thing I did notice, as you can see from the photos, is that internally, the circuitry for the connecting wire gets quite hot. One area the manufacturer should target for "gen 2" of this product is improving the way power gets from the battery to the goggles. Efficiency is clearly being lost here.
Some of you might be curious about being compatible with glasses. I wear a medium-framed pair of glasses, and I can tell you that I'm about at the limit. Large frames might have difficulty. And you can't put these on over your glasses. You have to take your glasses off, take the lens off the goggles, put the goggles on, then put your glasses on (this is a bit of a trick), and then pop the lens for the goggles on. So you won't just be popping these on over your glasses. I do have ski goggles that are a bit more "glasses friendly" than these are, and I also have some that are LESS. So, they're sort of mid-range for glasses wearers.
Speaking of the lens of these goggles, I really like the way it just pops on and off with magnets. Super easy. And they have a REALLY nice nose guard (removable) that helps to keep a bit of the wind off your nose, and also provides quite a bit of protection if you "face plant". I could see this saving someone a broken nose.
The only real negative part of these is the giant battery hanging off the side of your head. I know you need battery size for battery life, there's no way around that. I just wish they found a bit better way to distribute the load. I mean, it works and it's wearable. But you're never NOT aware of the fact you have a giant battery on your head. I think if I were involved in designing it, I would put 2 smaller batteries, one on each side, to more evenly distribute the weight. It would come at a slightly higher production cost, but would be more comfortable and usable by the customer.
In short, we haven't had much snow here in Ohio yet this year, so I haven't had a chance to get them out in some bad conditions and see how they perform real-world. But as far as the "bench test" goes, they passed with flying colors as far as I'm concerned. The only real downside for me is the big lop-sided battery, which isn't "front and center" but never drifts into the background either. It's always there. Some folks can live with it, and some would prefer to see what "gen 2" brings. Personally, I think they're neat, and despite their slight lop-sidedness, I recommend you give them a go. And then you'll be the first on your block to be sporting high-tech heated goggles.
And you can show everyone the thermograms to prove that they actually work.
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