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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. A competing approach by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Hittites developed a somewhat different technology for personal climactic control known as the "sweater" c. 1700 BCE. It was independently invented by the Mayans; however, neither civilization apparently prepared source code for distribution under terms that today's FSF would find acceptable.

  2. Re:Body hacking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I remember this case where a girl had gone through the ice. After she was rescued they cycled her blood through a warmer. It basically saved her life. DARPA might have been working on that.

  3. Re:Fooling body sensory and temp regulation system by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    So it's really a device for pampered pussies who can't just suck it up and ignore the heat like normal people do?

    PS I have no fucking idea what those numbers mean. Here in the civilized world we've stopped using the Reaumur scale or whatever centuries ago.