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MIT Wristband Is a Personal Climatizer

Posted by samzenpus on from the cooling-down dept.

rcastro0 writes "What looks like a CPU's heat sink worn around the wrist apparently may be able to make you feel cool even while it is hot — or warm while it is cold. As Wired reports, this termoelectric device explores human physiology and how we perceive temperature to fool our body and make us comfortable. The device is called Wristify, and Mashable has a video."

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  1. Fooling body sensory and temp regulation system? by macraig · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Whatever could go wrong with that?

  2. Re:Well, maybe not wrist... by Professr3 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Well, that depends on what you count as "something different" :\ They applied a bare peltier cooler to someone's wrist. I applied a water-cooled copper block to my forearm. The only difference I see is that my peltier cooler was already portable, had a heatsink fan, and transferred its thermal differential to my forearm via liquid coolant - but if you want to get technical, yes, I did something different

    My point is, it's great that people are working on commercializing this, but it's not automatically a Big Brand New Development just because MIT strapped a 12V square to an old watch band and hooked it up to some temperature sensors.

  3. Re:Well, maybe not wrist... by guanxi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it's not automatically a Big Brand New Development just because MIT strapped a 12V square to an old watch band and hooked it up to some temperature sensors.

    Sometimes it does seem like Slashdot simply publishes the MIT newsfeed, without the slightest skepticism.