Tag: HEAT

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 ...

They may be mild by Bostonian or New Yorker standards, but Parisian winters can still get pretty frigid. Residents at one old building near the Centre Pompidou, however, might have an easier time staying warm next winter, thanks to an environmentally friendly renovation that takes full advantage of one of the city's most elusive natural resources: humanity. Located at the edge of the Marais ...

If you're a motorcycle enthusiast, you know and accept that sometimes comfort must be sacrificed for power and style. Like, when it's 98 degrees outside, and you're stuck in traffic wearing a leather jacket. Or, when it's 28 degrees outside, and you're getting frostbite while zipping down the highway on your bike. Entrosys hopes to offer riders more comfort with its new motorcycle heating and ...

Are you too cool for gloves? Even those fingerless ones that only hipsters (and the homeless) wear? If you answered yes, then surely you also own an iPhone -- the ultimate barometer of anybody's coolness these days. So just how does one remain both hip and warm this winter? With a new application called Pocketheat, of course. According to Gizmodo, the app uses 100-percent of the device's ...

Everyone's looking for ways to be more efficient, which for many entails coming up with new and alternative ways to generate electricity. But, for others it means capturing something that typically goes to waste and putting it to good use. That's the case in a Swedish town, where a new crematorium is enabling those who don't want to be buried with their cell phones to help heat the town. The ...

In keeping with our legal requirement to cover every piece junk that plugs into a USB port, we present you with the heated USB mouse pad. With the winter months quickly kicking into gear, those of us with substandard heating in our homes and apartments will be looking for ways to stay toasty while sitting in front of our PCs. Of course, wrapping yourself in blankets and drinking cup after cup of ...

We'll go ahead and squash your hopes before you waste time pulling out the plastic -- this thing's just a concept, at least for now. From what we can glean, the HEAT ME is a fantastic device just waiting to be snapped up by Brando (or similar) and turned into the next must-have USB-powered gizmo. Put simply, the metal ends of this here stick warm up when plugged into your USB port, thus giving ...

One of the byproducts of extreme computing power is heat. The problem is that all of this heat represents wasted energy, and instead of trying to recapture it, we use even more energy to dissipate that heat with air conditioning. But in the city of Uitikon, Switzerland, the local government, GIB Services, and IBM have come up with a rather unique solution. The IBM-built data center run by GIB ...

You know that somewhat discomforting warmth that comes from your cell phone when you use it? A lot of people joke that it's the radiation slowly cooking your brain, but really it's just a combination of the heat from the battery, the processors inside your phone, and of course your face. Any time any mechanical or electrical device gets warm (excepting toasters and hair driers and the like) ...

Some bad news today for slipper fans -- someone has finally invented the electric carpet. Panasonic's new heated floor covering is like an electric blanket you stand on and is available in a variety of colors, patterns and materials. It can be cranked all the way up to 114 degrees and is even stain-resistant. We're hoping it's also electrocution-resistant, just in case Fido tries to test that ...