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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.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday May 30 2018, @07:36PM (8 children)
Too many other real world problems to worry about.
Moving on.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Wednesday May 30 2018, @07:48PM (1 child)
Gaaark collects all excess sweat using his moisture farming equipment.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday May 30 2018, @11:19PM
Oh, if only I had the time to game for hours on end.....
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(Score: 0) by fakefuck39 on Wednesday May 30 2018, @08:20PM (5 children)
Clearly there is a market for VR headsets. Some put a hot sweaty box around your head, some keep it cool with a noisy fan blowing in your face drying out your eyes, and this thing turns the outer shell into a heatsink while keeping the inner cool. I understand you have your very real mouth-herpes outbreak to worry about before you give VR any thought, but we're talking about the VR headset market - about 15mil units sold in fiscal 2017 (although not to me).
Don't forget to take your lysine on an empty stomach.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday May 30 2018, @08:46PM (4 children)
Is this VR? The submitter said VR. But the article doesn't say VR. They call it gaming. Although I ran three casinos very successfully. I made Atlantic City what it is today. And the only folks that had headsets were in my call center. Doing phone calls. I don't call that gaming!!
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday May 30 2018, @09:48PM (2 children)
A Den Of Iniquity.
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(Score: -1) by fakefuck39 on Thursday May 31 2018, @04:28PM (1 child)
What what now? Is that the den where you live in front of your computer screen 10 hours a day or some nerd reference to the locker inside which you spent highschool?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 31 2018, @10:21PM
While I don't require Jesus to be divine I do feel the historical Jesus was inspired.
And I really do read the Bible, most commonly when I'm in the slammer.
I was referring to the moneychangers in the temple. JC wasn't down with that so he beat them all up then threw them all out.
That was totally righteous.
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(Score: -1) by fakefuck39 on Thursday May 31 2018, @03:20AM
How sad it's got to be to take a stupid joke and keep doing it, and doing it, for hours and hours and hours. I'm guessing the point is there not a more interesting way for some really really big losers to spend time, and a dog eating its own vomit is an endless cycle. I get it - you can talk similar to that bumbling idiot. Good job.