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> e.g. heated steering wheels and seats instead of air heating The next step could be microwave heating systems that directly heat your body. But I would proba
by Hermel 10y ago
> e.g. heated steering wheels and seats instead of air heating
The next step could be microwave heating systems that directly heat your body. But I would probably not feel comfortable with that.
https://www.wired.com/2008/01/pain-beam-centr/ https://www.wired.com/2008/01/pain-beam-centr/
- dzhiurgis 10y agoOr a Japanese invention - kotatsu.
- nannal 10y agoa blanket with a heater under it?
- ge96 10y agoI swear it works, let me show you. - No, no one will ever fund this
- mpg33 10y agothat seems like a terrible idea?
- espadrine 10y agoLet me see, people are already really upset by cellphone radiations, which are non-ionizing and therefore can only be harmful from the heat it generates. You would need marketing masterminds to sell this.
- delecti 10y agoAll it would take is one mommy blogger to make the connection that cell phone signals are already microwaves.
- greglindahl 10y agoThat is illegal in the US: there's a regulation that limits microwave power levels outside of an oven to little enough that it doesn't significantly heat anything.
- kpil 10y agoProbably good as microwaves behave very unpredictable in the complex fat-air-water boundaries in a body. It is hard to rule out that a focused reflection from the head accidentally heat up a part of the retina just a few degrees, which might blind someone.