After having survived a weekend with a crazy silly driver, I wish Nissan didn’t spend money on creating a new car AC system that adjusts to the “driver’s mental activity,” releasing aromas, controlling humidity, and injecting breezes and plasmacluster ions.
Imagine Slate columnist Daniel Gross’s surprise when he arrived at the Nekkei offices in Japan and was greeted by businessmen, sans ties. To appear so casual in the workplace is almost sacrilege in Japan, and yet here it was, happening.
You know you’ve made it as an inventor when you’re selling a vacuum cleaner hose to cops for $US50 that’s designed to run from their car’s AC vents to their shirts.
File these under “new to me” category, but while I’d seen programmable thermostats before, I’d never encountered a vent that opened and closed on a timer.
For many of us, the first day of summer starts just before midnight tonight. That means it is time to start thinking about how to beat the heat when the temperatures soar and the air conditioning unit in your home or office inevitably breaks down. In this scenario, survival means being prepared for anything. The following summertime gadgets will ensure that you have all of your bases covered.
Those egg-heads from Thanko have spent the best part of a year banging their large, domed cerebelli together, tackling what is without doubt the biggest question that the human race faces this millennium: how to upgrade their air-conditioned tie. And this is what they came up with—hiding the fan grille behind the fabric. Let us stop on this Friday morning (day, slow, news, a, it’s, yeah. Now make a sentence out of that) and consider the evidence:
For those who have been softened by years of artificially produced 22-degree work, sleep and play, this “air-conditioned bed” is a promising tool to fight midsummer sleep sweat. A simple air pad that circulates fresh air under your body, the air-conditioned bed gets the cool air just where you need it–under your sweaty backside (a lesser man might call it “swass”). And for a measly 24 cents a day in operating costs, the US$399 price tag becomes a little more reasonable. [Japan Trendshop via Techfresh]
Kuchofuku, the same company that brought us air conditioned shirts, has re-applied their groundbreaking technology in an effort to deliver us from one of the biggest problems facing mankind today. Of course I am speaking about arse sweat. In fact, their air conditioned seat cushion line can pump up to 170 litres of air per minute through the seat using an extraordinarily low amount of electricity in the process.
This is Samsung’s new air-conditioning unit from its Hauzen range. Blah blah blah blah pretty laydee blah blah legs blah blah is she smiling at me blah blah BLAH. Gallery below, and feel free to improve on my captions in the comments. [Akihabara News]
If there was ever an invention out there destined to piss off fathers everywhere, it’s this. It’s an outdoor air conditioner. Yeah, you heard that right.
