Sony Wearable Thermal Device
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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
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.
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...
* 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.
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.
Where did I say communism causes no pollution?
Seems like a logical and reasonable question to me.
(former) Communist countries like the one I was born in are too poor to generate the amount of excessive consumerism and environment damage rich countries do.
For example there was no such thing as plastic packaging. Everything was packaged in paper, glass or steel way before rich countries made that a hipster thing for greenwashing.
All goods, even low quality ones that would be unreliable, from cars to clothing and electronics, were kept going forever through endless repairs instead of being landfilled the moment a capacitor leaked and new ones bought on a yearly basis because Company X just dropped the new Shiny and the warranty expired on the previous widget, decades before the rapirability trend hit the rich countries.
But let’s put that aside, and assume the whole world was communist and repaired things (ignoring that repair also happened under capitalism). Is there no pollution? Industry? Seems like even if the pollution is less, we still would just end up in the same place eventually.
North Korea also calls itself the Democratic people's republic of Korea, you think it's democratic?
And China pollutes a lot because it's the West's sweatshop so rich countries are outsourcing there pollution there by consuming all those cheaply goods made in China at the profit of the western corporations.
>Seems like even if the pollution is less, we still would just end up in the same place eventually.
How so? Capitalism demands virtually infinite growth long term along with visible growth on a yearly or quarterly basis.
If I framed the issue by saying that it's all because stupid people can't live in harmony with nature and someone replies with one of the countless examples of other animals ruining their habitats that is not moving the goalpost at all, that is showing that my framing is incorrect.
Even if I were to take out the capitalism from your initial statement: "Consumerism revolves around making profit from fixing the problems that consumerism has created in the first place from making profit."
This falls down when you begin to look at what consumerism is, which is buying and using goods to signal status. This practice has existed since the dawn of time when Ogg traded a new ax to Ugg for the shiny rock to impress Ogget.
The industrial revolution, which it looks like is the actual target of your ire just accelerated the ability for more people to obtain the shiny rocks, leading to the loss of value in shiny rocks and thus the demand for more and new types of shiny rocks.
In a sibling comment, you do make it political by comparing Communist countries to Rich countries: "Communist countries like the one I was born in are too poor to generate the amount of excessive consumerism and environment damage rich countries do."
This is also not a good argument unless your view is that by making people richer and allowing them to have access to more things is a bad idea.
Bringing people up from a subsistence level of survival to a modern lifestyle costs energy and resources. Now, we could say that it is bad to bring people up or that we don't want to. That is a moral argument that you can make, I think that you will be hard pressed to find anyone that agrees that human society peaked at any point in the past in terms of lifestyle, comfort or almost any other metric.
Now, could we be more mindful of how we elevate and progress? I do believe that we could.
Please stop breaking HN rules by making faceless personal accusations against people and call them children just because you disagree with someone's point.
Also, it's in line with Low Tech Magazine's "heat people not spaces" stance, so it's not bad from any perspectives.
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
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.
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.
...also known as... clothes, I guess?