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MIT Wristband Could Make AC Obsolete It may be an issue with the Wired author, but the headline warrants qualification. People dying would be one such qualific
by 001sky 13y ago
MIT Wristband Could Make AC Obsolete
It may be an issue with the Wired author, but the headline warrants qualification. People dying would be one such qualification. It really has little to do with the startup itself (if any). So the Dropbox allusion is just off base. People that have experience in extreme environments have reason to be wary of anything such as this. To use another analogy, its akin to taking pain medication to run with an injury. It would be irresponsible to say that such medication "would make doctors obsolete". In other words, by treating a syptom (pain) and not the problem (injury), you may actually be increasing risk (further, more severe injury). The concept of a personal cooling system itself is not science fiction or without merit. Its actually rooted in golden era of the space program. But there are resons the Apollo solutions did not look like this.