Mar 21
If you’re in the market for a new air conditioner and you (and the heat) can wait till May, the Quirky+GE Aros is an app-enabled, Wi-Fi-connected window unit that combines Nest-like features with an 8,000 BTU cooling system.
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Mar 19
This is Aros, a Wi-Fi connected air conditioner aimed at energy-conscious consumers that Quirky and GE are launching today. It’s by far the biggest and most complicated product that Quirky has ever built, and it aims to help solve truly endemic problem: The window a/c unit, which has remained pretty much unchanged since the 1970s.
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Feb 05
Air conditioners aren’t exactly known for being particularly environmentally friendly, but during a scorching summer we’re all happy to turn a blind eye. Not Thibault Faverie, though. Perhaps racked by guilt, he’s created the Cold Pot, a simple terracotta device that can cool a room using just evaporating water.
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Jan 02
Winter is still upon us, and it is still freezing cold in Korea but that doesn’t seems to bother LG at all and they just released in over-there their latest Whisen Air Conditioner. Ok I know AC nowadays are more than “cooling” machines and also happen to heat you frozen ass, but hey why on earth announcing something like this mid-season for a launch early April? Anyway these new series of AC are not just a huge bunch of dumb Plastic pillars but real geek wonder with voice …
Aug 21
All-weather motorcycle helmet heats and cools your face, protects grey matter (video)
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Bob Averill, who introduced us to the world of underwater hamster care, had a couple of other projects to show us during our visit to Portland, Oregon, including the All-Weather Motorcycle Helmet. What, you ask, makes a motorcycle helmet “all-weather?” Why, built-in heating and cooling, of course. Averill started with a standard Vega modular helmet, adding an evaporative cooler powered by a solar panel on top. The cooler pulls air from an intake on the helmet’s side, sucking up more air at higher speeds and blowing it through a sponge, across the wearer’s face. When things get too cold, there’s a heater built into the liner, created from a heated mouse pad and powered by a lithium battery. Averill is looking to get the project mass-produced, but that’s easier said than done, when it comes to a safety products like this — and Kickstarter, apparently, isn’t playing ball. Check out a video of the helmet after the break.
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Aug 21
Panasonic expands smart home appliance line, adds Android Smart App, cloud services
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If a wireless light bulb wasn’t quite the Jetson’s style future you were hoping for, perhaps Panasonic‘s planned expansion of its smart home appliances will better scratch that itch. From next month, there’ll be an Android app to let you remotely operate appliances, view energy savings and program settings via NFC. Hardware-wise, the electronics giant is introducing connected air conditioners, refrigerators, washer-dryers as well as smaller devices such as blood pressure monitors and calorie meters. Along with remote control, there appears to be some supportive cloud-based services too, such as reporting device faults to customer service and generating reports (from the healthcare products). When can you get a taste of the future? September 25th if you live in Orbit City Japan. As for the rest of the world? We’ll just have to be patient.
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Jul 16
Air-Conditioned Pants May be the Most Over-Engineered Garment, Ever [Fashion]
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It’s hot as hell outside, these days, and it’s pretty much unfuckingbearable to endure. Which may be why it took me an embarrassingly long amount of time—a few minutes, in this case, is a few minutes too many—to come back down to Earth and realize that pants with their own built-in A/C are not as brilliant as my sun-addled mind first thought. More »
Jul 04
Complaining about the heat is about as tiresome as sitting in an un-airconditioned room and sweating into the puddle of tears you’re sobbing because your body is shutting down from heat stroke. So let’s not do that. Instead, let’s ask: What is the technological masterstroke of air conditioning worth to you? More »
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