Also, it's in line with Low Tech Magazine's "heat people not spaces" stance, so it's not bad from any perspectives.
Interestingly, this thermal device come with the environment temperature sensor or thermometer something that a USD2K worth smartphone do not include built-in.
Just wondering does it also utilize heat pump technology for its cooling and heating function?
Consumerist capitalism revolves around making profit from fixing the problems that consumerist capitalism has created in the first place from making profit. Nice.
...also known as... clothes, I guess?
I have one. Rather effective at chilling my blood. No app needed.
Neither solution really captivates me, even though I am currently in Asia with a heatwave. But then again I do not wear suits nor have professional meetings in person.
* Putting on motorcycle gear already takes a significant amount of time, I am always looking for ways to spend less time putting on gear not more time.
* While on a motorcycle you have excellent access to wind, and good summer gear will use that to its full advantage.
* This doesn't cover the parts of the body that gain the most heat in the summer. The head inside the helmet and the knees near the engine are the hottest locations.
* I have bad luck using items not designed for motorcycle riding while riding a motorcycle. Even items designed for riding a motorcycle such as boots can show significant wear quickly. It's a special use case with high forces.
Never seen one of these before, and I'm sure people would gawk and think it's weird, but after so many years of suffering I don't think I give a shit.
In Japan they have tight fitting plastic shells with fans that pump air in to jacket and expels through ends of the jacket. 1
I imagine this is much more efficient than resistive heating clothing and allows for cooling but what about the front?
1 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/25/fan-jacket-jap...
https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%80%90%E6%96%B0%E7%99%BB%E5%A0%B...
possibly without customs (but i'm available to pay for it)
https://dhamasport.com/product/cool-wristband/
https://embrlabs.com/products/embr-wave-2
I was looking at them to deal with Raynauds Disease but the Sony device might be even better.
Living in the US I had to jump through the hoop of making a fake japanese icloud account just to be able to access the app on the app store, which is how you control the device.
Ultimately it seemed like a really cool device but at least at the time wasn't very effective or practical for cooling down, at least in my and his experience. This was mostly just being outside, doing yard work etc in the hot summer.
I think buying one of the <$50 portable neck coolers on amazon are probably just as if not more effective
Part of it is history, the Cool Biz campaign set the idea of 28C being the "right" temp for offices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Biz_campaign
Regardless, I look forward to this or another device like it appearing on the techmoan channel in the coming months.
Sony went for a different route, instead of side neck cooling, they did the back.
