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Anti-Frostidigitation: Heatpipe Gloves
Hettinga writes "A little casemod couture this morning, courtesy of Hongbin Ma, a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Missouri. He has developed heatpipe-driven gloves which pump therms from your toasty upper arm down to those aforementioned frosty digits. 'Each glove contains five small heat pipes, one for each finger, that are about 14 inches long and 1 mm x 2 mm in the cross section. Each pipe consists of three sections: an evaporating section, which is attached to the upper arm area; an adiabatic section, which is between the finger area and the arm area; and the condensing section, which is attached to the finger area.' Coming soon to a half-pipe near you..."
I'll take two.
Ride recklessly only when safe to do so.
nature didn't provide us with some kind of fluid that automatically circulates throughout our body to distribute warmth and nutrients.
now my upper arms are cold.
I could use some of these gloves for Anti-Burnination!
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
You could just carry your super overclocked PC around with your to keep your hands warm.
My fingers stiffen up and I can't type very well in chilly air. I'm rated at 73 WPM at standard room temperature. Imagine the productivity boost with these babies on! At least 5-10 WPM for sure!
This will negate the very positive Darwinian influence on our gene pool WRT "People who are too fscking stupid to come in out of the cold." ;-)
I can certainly see somebody making a hard suit for central Antarctica lined with Aerogel. Can you imagine? "Bob's lost in that blizzard! We have to find him in less than a month or he'll starve!"
that are about 14 inches long and 1 mm x 2 mm in the cross section.
It's mixing units like that, that causes rovers to crash.
And of course a simpsons quote to go with it:
"My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I like it!"
It would really be: We have to find him in four hours because he'll overheat in that suit without someone to get him out!
Yes. So if you are out in the snow naked except for these gloves, then you should take them off. But the problem then isn't really the gloves.
Solution to fend of heat-pipe-glove-induced hypothermia, buy a warm coat to go with it.
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Quick, adapt this thing to underpants and we can do away with 'shrinkage'!
But lowering the core temp should allow you to run faster, thus be able to get inside sooner. ;o)
any argument making frequent use of the term 'mitten' is intrinsically hilarious.