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While it may not garner any fashion awards, a line of climate-controlled clothing developed by an MIT student can help regulate the body's temperature. According to Co.Design, Kranthi Kiran Vistakula's ClimaWare apparel can operate for eight hours on a single charge, and the vest (pictured right) weighs the same as a pair of jeans. Vistakula's apparel, which also includes a helmet, neckwrap and jacket, is lined with metal pucks placed at spots on the body where blood vessels are most dense to more efficiently regulate body temperature. The pucks are made of two different metals, so that one heats up, and the other cools down. The resulting energy is transferred to the skin through a thermoelectric lining stitched inside the clothing. While climate-controlled clothing has existed for a while, Vistakula's apparel, which won him the honor of being the Indian Technology Review's "2010 Innovator of the Year," is noteworthy for its light weight and efficiency. "While pursuing my Masters at MIT, I found the process of putting on and taking off additional layers of clothing in winter very cumbersome," Vistakula said. The lightweight tech could be used for athletes, soldiers or heat-deprived bloggers.
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Subscribe to commentsSMARTDec 28th 2010 11:56AM
Its obvious the author of this article is not MIT material. NANOTECH has nothing to do with this. You should google technical terms before using them in your article. Besides, your own article stated this application of a termally controlled garb has been around for many years. Thats right! NASA and many years before Nanotechnology was in our vocabulary. Neverthelss, thumbs up for the MIT student. Thumbs up for the author, but not in the air.
nancy hDec 28th 2010 12:01PM
@SMART
Isn't is therma????
SMARTDec 28th 2010 7:46PM
@nancy h
Thanks Nancy, my faux pas. The word should have be thermally. Glad you agreed though.
greggDec 28th 2010 2:02PM
it a copy cat world where innovators are cheated
by thieves who steal their ideas and concepts-
the idea of awarding them is unconscienacble.
adsfDec 28th 2010 10:50PM
@gregg
Ok...the concept is not that complicated to begin with......my 10 year old cousin noted that he would like clothing that would heat up or cool down depending on the weather outside.....it doesn't take an MIT student to work on a concept or improve a concept. in fact, many scientists have worked upon many existing concepts, yet they get the fame in the end (e.g. our precious, beloved sir albert einstein)
SMARTDec 28th 2010 7:48PM
"should have been"
npatDec 28th 2010 10:50PM
@gregg
Ok...the concept is not that complicated to begin with......my 10 year old cousin noted that he would like clothing that would heat up or cool down depending on the weather outside.....it doesn't take an MIT student to work on a concept or improve a concept. in fact, many scientists have worked upon many existing concepts, yet they get the fame in the end (e.g. our precious, beloved sir albert einstein)