Review: Carv 2 Digital Ski Coach

This tech-led, ski-school outfit thought they'd make their virtual snow instructor hardware better by taking out a key component. Amazingly, it's worked.

WIRED first came across the digital ski coach Carv back in 2016, when it broke records on Kickstarter, raising $275,196. Since then, they’ve raised millions, tracked 567,751,662 turns, sold in excess of 45,000 units and made this journalist a much better skier.

But no product is perfect, doubly so usually if it hails from Kickstarter, so with the launch of Carv 2 the company has dramatically altered the hardware, redesigned the app, and (of course) embraced AI. Given the overwhelmingly positive reviews and seemingly happy customer base it feels like a huge risk, so WIRED headed to the Alps to see if Carv's gamble will pay off.

To recap, the original Carv combined a smart battery unit ...