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> makes you feel 5°F more comfortable overall. Keyword being "feel", as opposed to "actual"
by 781 7y ago
> makes you feel 5°F more comfortable overall.
Keyword being "feel", as opposed to "actual"
- fwip 7y agoThat's what matters, right? I don't actually want to change my body temperature by 5 degrees, I'd die.
- jjoonathan 7y agoSure, but if you believe fuzzy marketing claims like this, I've got a bridge to sell you. It'll make you feel like a billionaire.
- 781 7y agoBy your logic, with that little watch thing on your wrist you could spend all day outside in Dubai and not worry about a thing.
- tareqak 7y agoHaving cooling be local as possible is exactly what matters. You might argue that a BedJet is silly, but the idea is similar in spirit [0]. The question is: why heat or cool the part of the air that makes contact with things that don't require it? It requires more energy and has costs like creating additional pollution. I've had random ideas like wearing a wetsuit that regulates the temperature at right at skin-level, so something like this patch is both validation and a marked improvement. [0] https://bedjet.com/ https://bedjet.com/
- dillonmckay 7y agoWere you seeing the slashdot banner ads too?
- tareqak 7y agoNo, I actually discovered them by watching by watching videos of ads done by the Harmon Brothers [0]. [0] https://harmonbrothers.com/home https://harmonbrothers.com/home
- pdonis 7y ago> That's what matters, right? No. What matters is that your body doesn't overheat. In the absence of devices like the watch, your feeling of being comfortable enough correlates well with your body not overheating. But if you are wearing a device like the watch that fools your body's perception of comfort, you can feel comfortable while your body is actually overheating. That's not good. > I don't actually want to change my body temperature by 5 degrees, I'd die. That's not what the patch does. What the patch does is keep your body from getting hotter in an environment where it otherwise would. And you can tell that it's doing that because you still feel comfortable, and the patch isn't fooling your body's perception of comfort, so if you feel comfortable, you're ok. If you start feeling too cold, you just take the patch off. So you don't need to worry about your body temperature dropping.
- closeparen 7y agoFor people without real AC there is not much opportunity to act on the discomfort.
- pdonis 7y agoThat doesn't make it any safer for them to fool their body into thinking they're comfortable when they're actually overheating.
- closeparen 7y agoA number of cities have a few weeks of 80-100F weather and minimal residential air conditioning. If such temperatures were dangerous overheating, they would need to be evacuated every August. They aren’t. Consensus opinion is to suck it up. If the discomfort has no utility there, why experience it?
- pdonis 7y ago> If such temperatures were dangerous overheating, they would need to be evacuated every August. Oh, so everybody stays out in the hot sun all day? Nobody stays in the shade? Nobody goes indoors? Nobody has houses designed to stay reasonably cool when it's hot out? (There are plenty of ways to do that without A/C.) If people don't change how long they stay out--just go out for short periods to do something, then go somewhere where they can cool off--I have no objection to them using a device to help them feel more comfortable. But uncoupling your natural perception of your body's condition from the actual state of your body is always risky.