Instead of cooling homes – why not just cool bodies? That’s the idea behind Wristify, a new gizmo created by a group of MIT students and possibly the device that will replace the AC unit.
Fox News reports:
Developed by four engineering students at MIT, Wristify is a prototype wearable device that leverages the physical phenomenon known as the Peltier effect to reduce your body temperature. … When placed against the skin, the device makes you feel cooler by reducing the temperature of your wrist a few fractions of a degree per second for a couple seconds at a time. Over the course of a few minutes, this process will cause you to perceive a whole-body cooling of a couple degrees Celsius.
It remains to be seen how far this patent-pending prototype will go, but it’s already won the $10,000 top prize in MIT’s annual Making And Designing Materials Engineering Competition.
Click here to Like The College Fix on Facebook / Twitter: @CollegeFix
IMAGE: Wristify screenshot
Please join the conversation about our stories on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, MeWe, Rumble, Gab, Minds and Gettr.