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- ifonly, on 10/12/2007, -7/+107why not?
- stokestack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+61USB is fine for cooling, but for cold weather my mittens have FireWire.
*rim shot* - tjordan90, on 10/12/2007, -3/+58Because now my USB-heated pants and this nifty gadget can fight it out. Thank god my underwear comes equipped with TWO USB ports.
- Lososaurus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46That's a downside?
Santa has the power to command legions of small children. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30We have split the atom taken our men to the moon and have made quirky inventions that help make living intresting like this USB Air Conditioned Shirt, yet we still havent mastered the art of making underwear that dosent chaff. I think we should reevalutate our priorties
- Unicyclelarry, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Cities will have to be built around them!
- davidirock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Where is the buy now button?
- strangeguitar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21@hamzataha - it comes with an option to run on batteries or via your car's cigarette lighter.
- jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Digg from me since a similar rendition of this gadget was in Back to to the Future pt 2 when Marty Mcfly gets wet and his jacket dries him off. At least thats what came to my mind :-D
- zachgc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19@Lososaurus
OK, that's only slightly creepy... - SmeRndmGy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15"Because I don't walk around with a usb plug... and because i don't need an air conditioned shirt..."
Clearly this is not something people who regularly stand and walk and interact with other humans would buy. If you're a fat sweaty nerd who sits in his computer chair all day sweating, this is for you. If you're a normal fairly active, fairly social person, you most likely will not be purchasing this item. - AnteChronos, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17I'd hesitate to call this air conditioning. AC implies modifying the temperature and humidity, whereas this is just a couple of fans.
- Haroldx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17The only downside is that it makes you look like Santa.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14must sound like hell in the drier
- BlackSheepx, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18If it was completely portable and ran on batteries or something, and you didnt look like such a marshmallow this would be awesome.
I want Kevin to put this on diggnation and have Alex tell him how much he hates it. - tlogank, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16You have 2 choices:
Either be cool or look cool. - r©ain, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Does this shirt make me look fat?
- TeebZ, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Good news, it does run on batteries!
"The shirt is also powered by four AA batteries..." - Deusiah, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14I wouldn't hesitate, there is no way this is air conditioning. They just wanted a fancy name as "Shirt with two fans" sounds like a shirt with two fans which is of course nothing special.
- Flankk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I'm guessing it's for men only. If I see a woman with a rippling potbelly, I'm not asking about the USB cable.
- jedi0utkast, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@ifonly, That has to be one of the funniest headlines I have read in digg.
- bebop717, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9It even plugs into the cigarette lighter in your car—because it’s such a great idea hooking up your body to your car’s electrical system.
Why not just run the AC in your car or roll down the windows? - Mr.Glass, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6since when do 2 fans equal air conditioning?
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6air + sweat = conditioning
- inotocracy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The question to ask: where do I buy one? No, seriously... where do I buy one??
- real, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8I just like the discription awsome
- sremick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Anyone running a server room with no AC should be fired. Seriously. Servers generate a lot of heat and can suffer weird intermittent failures if the room they're in is not kept properly cool.
- quasipalm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I think I would consider buying one if the fan was hidden and the air intakes were hidden up by the collar. It also couldn't make any noise and should be machine washable. :-)
- oyourmom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3what happens when they install the fans backwords and it like sucks the life out of you, frys the USB port, or even worse, rip a good shirt!
- sstidman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Actually, that's not a bad idea to make the fans suck inward. The shirt could then contain ridges on the inside to permit air flow along your back. The back side of the ridges (the side away from your body) would be flat and stiff so that when the fans were on the shirt would be sucked inward drawing air from the collar/neck opening. I think the cooling would work just as well but would look fairly normal, at least compared to the puffy thing shown in the pictures.
By the way, the blue shirt shown has white fans. That takes a bad look and only makes it worse. They should at least make the fan color match the shirt color. - allarise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3fuuck yea - that's exactly what i was thinking.
"jacket... dry." - chad78, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4No, it says there are women's verisons too on this page:
http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/usb_powered_air_conditioned_clothes.php
(linked from the article) - JangoFett, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Pretty soon we'll get to have self-drying jackets like Marty in "Back to the Future II".
- aximbigfan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i still like my water cooled shirt... if only i didnt have to carry the radiator, water reservur, pump, filter, valve,
- chocolatespoon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3we'll have to buy the odor repelling nose harness attatchment
- Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Air-conditioned clothes? Haha, such solutions are at least too premature, wait for nanotechnology to take of and then we talk again.
BTW these usb-gadgets is everything geekiest ever made. - Buelldozer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3
Wow, I can't wait for the delicious smell being given off by the sweaty warthogs who will actually WEAR one of these things. - khag7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"because it’s such a great idea hooking up your body to your car’s electrical system"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i need this for work!
- compu73rg33k, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9FINALLY! I've been waiting for something like this for a long time. In 2 years, EVERYBODY will have at least one.
- m0rdred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Buy here :)
http://www.rakuten.co.jp/pc2b/820157/836478/ - yichen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can't find any link to a store. :( I want one.
- drigz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You could have a layer of watercooling between the peltiers and you to even out the temperature...
- PhantomZmoove, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Yeah, I was expecting some sort of cooling element as well. Like one of those thermoelectric plate things, but this is kind of cool too. (heh no pun intended)
- kimos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I didn't RTFA. I don't care about it.
I did digg it for the description though... If the poster copied it, that's because it's hilarous! :P - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A USB powered peltier wouldn't do much at all. Peltiers are fairly inefficent, and USB is very, very low powered.
- nick4342, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1where can you buy one? the link in the article goes to a paper fan.
- vspazv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And just hope it doesnt catch on any hair...
- Lifestory, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1now i have to change my clothings cos the old ones were made to keep me warm... sigh..
- thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4That's gotta be awkward.
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