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Gadget Review: USB-C powered Semiconductor Neck Cooler

Are you too hot? Can't run an air-conditioner? Stuck on a sweaty tube train? You need a USB-C powered personal cooling device!

There are loads of personal electric fans available - but I've gone for something slightly more high-tech. A neck-wearable Peltier cooler. It looks like this:

And fits round your ne

shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/07/gadge

#/etc/ #gadget #review #usb-c

dazinism

@Edent
Look kind of a bit naff/gadgety but interesting to hear these may actually work pretty good

I can find it hard to think straight in the heat & sometimes find myself struggling to stay on mission. Also tend to have lots of stuff to do outside. Wondering if they would reboot my heat frazzled brain

Got friends that work in poly tunnels and glass houses (I do a bit sometimes also) these might really help them out. On hot days they get up super early and siesta, but it can still be tough.

@dazinism Yeah - they do actually work. Obviously it's only cooling your neck, but lots of blood flows that way 🙂