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I always wondered if there was a market for a "cool suit" with astronaut-style cold water tubes all over it you could hook a garden hose up to while working in
by causality0 3y ago
I always wondered if there was a market for a "cool suit" with astronaut-style cold water tubes all over it you could hook a garden hose up to while working in the yard. Water the grass and cool yourself off at the same time.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoYou want a furry cooling vest https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-cooling-vest-invented-by-a-furry-made-its-way-into-the-us-military https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-cooling-vest-invented-by...
- jaredhallen 3y agoHad to click. Looks like the vest is pretty normie. BYO-Furry-Costume. Interesting nonetheless.
- pstuart 3y agoThere's been some interesting stuff about cooling the body for exercise performance, and they've found that the soles of the feet, the palms of the hands, and the cheeks are the locations that are most efficient in applying the cooling. So perhaps just "cool boots" might be enough.
- matthew-wegner 3y agoThere are off-the-shelf cooling vests you can buy. They're basically ice packs and matching pockets to put them in: https://texascoolvest.com/ https://texascoolvest.com/ https://www.coolingvest.com/ https://www.coolingvest.com/
- keane 3y agoAnother major manufacturer popularizing these is https://www.qoreperformance.com https://www.qoreperformance.com
- stevespang 3y ago[dead]
- throwaway14356 3y agosurgically implanted tubes sounds fun. We could run them though your entire body. Like water holes in cpu's Or perhaps one could repurpose existing tubing.
- riffic 3y agothat's literally your circulatory system
- dsr_ 3y agoPlease be careful when plumbing external connections into the human circulatory system. Several important security mechanisms are bypassed, and there's much more complexity to blood than is initially obvious.
- Retric 3y agoWhile true, cold saline IV’s are useful for both dehydration and lowering core body temperature. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29112514/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29112514/
- larperdoodle 3y agoI want a device that hooks into my circulatory system and diverts my blood flow through it, filtering out microplastics and other shit that shouldn't be there, and then cooling it down slightly before putting it back in.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoYou want dialysis?
- Vecr 3y agoDonate plasma, it works reasonably well. If you have antibodies you want to keep it might be bad though because those count as the plasma and get taken out.
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- eichin 3y agoA coworker of mine spent a lot of time maintaining computers in warehouses in the US South and picked up a jacket with basically PC-fans built in, it had sleeves and some of the airflow was down the sleeves. We mostly joked about needing to overclock our field technicians...
- teddyh 3y agoWe don’t want overclock the field technicians, just avoid them thermal throttling.
- kadoban 3y agoWith today's hardware there's not a lot of difference. If you keep things cool and maybe unlock a limit or two, you'll get better performance automatically. The parallels seem pretty good :)
- yawebnw 3y agoI think this type of workwear originated in Japan, where you might find them more commonly used. https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-194835 https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-194835
- heattemp99 3y agoDirt bike riders/motorcyclists have been pouring water over their clothes/suits and then riding for generations. Works great to cool down well below ambient air temp as long as humidity isn't super high.
- causality0 3y agoYeah but actually working while wet will make your clothes chafe the shit out of you.