{"id":2536,"date":"2013-10-30T16:34:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2013-10-30T16:34:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:34:31","slug":"mit-wristband-could-make-ac-obsolete-wired-design-wired-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/30\/mit-wristband-could-make-ac-obsolete-wired-design-wired-com\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Wristband Could Make AC Obsolete | Wired Design | Wired.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[It&#8217;s a good day for cool tech gadget news. -egg]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/design\/2013\/10\/an-ingenious-wristband-that-keeps-your-body-at-the-perfect-temperature-no-ac-required\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"100\" width=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/WRISTIFY2-200x100.jpg?resize=200%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of that adds up to a big problem. At a point when humans need to take a sober look at our energy use, we\u2019re poised to use a devastating amount of it keeping our homes and offices at the right temperatures in years to come. A team of students at MIT, however, is busy working on a prototype device that could eliminate much of that demand, and they\u2019re doing it by asking one compelling question: Why not just heat and cool our bodies instead?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Wristify, as they call their device, is a thermoelectric bracelet that regulates the temperature of the person wearing it by subjecting their skin to alternating pulses of hot or cold, depending on what\u2019s needed. The prototype recently won first place at MIT\u2019s Making and Designing Materials Engineering Competition, netting the group a $10,000 prize, which they\u2019ll use to continue its development. It\u2019s a promising start to a clever approach that could help alleviate a serious energy crisis. But as Sam Shames, the MIT senior who helped invent the technology, explains, the team was motivated by a more prosaic problem: keeping everyone happy in a room where no one can agree where to set the thermostat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/design\/2013\/10\/an-ingenious-wristband-that-keeps-your-body-at-the-perfect-temperature-no-ac-required\/\">MIT Wristband Could Make AC Obsolete | Wired Design | Wired.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[It&#8217;s a good day for cool tech gadget news. -egg] All of that adds up to a big problem. At a point when humans need to take a sober look at our energy use, we\u2019re poised to use a devastating amount of it keeping our homes and offices at the right temperatures in years to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-EU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2543,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/2543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}