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HP Announces Headphones With Thermoelectric Cooling

posted by janrinok on Wednesday May 30 2018, @07:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-man's-greatest-contribution dept.

takyon writes:

HP gaming headset cools you down using thermoelectrics

One of the worst things about over-the-ear and on-ear headsets is that they tend to feel hot and uncomfortable after a few hours, especially if you live in a muggy environment. HP has just announced a pair of headphones that can keep you cool even during whole-day gaming sessions -- unlike other similar options, though, they don't use fans or cooling gels. At the HP Gaming Festival in Beijing, the tech giant has launched a number of new devices under its Omen gaming line, including the Mindframe headset that uses a patented thermoelectric cooling technique.

The headphones have a thermoelectric device inside their earcups that conducts heat from the acoustic chamber and directs it outside. Engadget Senior Editor Devindra Hardawar got to hold a sample of the device, and he said it was like having an AC pressed against the palm of his hand.

Soon we can spend 16 straight hours in VR without sweating all over the headset/phones.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday May 30 2018, @08:43PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday May 30 2018, @08:43PM (#686472) Journal

    I don't hang with the FPS sequel crowd enough to know if shaved heads would be cool, are cool, or would not be tolerated. Or a nice short buzz cut, at least.

    Online, and in the virtual world, nobody knows you are a bald head girl.

    If would be an interesting engineering challenge to build a space suit like VR helmet that blows nice cool air on your head without blowing air on your eyes. Insert usual BS about the dangers of Korean Fan Death Syndrome of course.

    Westerners don't have the myth and the target audience in South Korea probably does not care:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death [wikipedia.org]

    Ken Jennings, writing for Slate, says that based on "a recent email survey of contacts in Korea", opinion seems to be shifting among younger Koreans: "A decade of Internet skepticism seems to have accomplished what the preceding 75 years could not: convinced a nation that Korean fan death is probably hot air."

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday May 30 2018, @08:52PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday May 30 2018, @08:52PM (#686476)

    A decade of Internet skepticism seems to have accomplished

    Whos getting the better deal out of internet culture? The west gets the "red pill" to modernize, rationalize, and reality (re)base politics and gender relations, the Koreans get the "kimchi pill" which merely mythbusts the dreaded fan death syndrome.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @01:18AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @01:18AM (#686554)

      Well we are subjected to your red piller crap, so I'm going with native English speakers are getting the short end of the stick. Thankfully the short stick fits on the short bus we have to ride with you.