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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 VLM on Wednesday May 30 2018, @08:47PM (5 children)
What do other industries do, like for example everyone inside a recording studio, do they just smoke more weed to ignore it or ... ?
Another industry, the dreaded military industrial complex. Three things disturb me about searches for tank crewman CVC helmets on google:
1) They're cheap on ebay, although I assume those are CID honeypots to catch thieves and really out of date spies, not real offers
2) BOSE has been providing noise cancelling tank helmet headphones since a little after I was in the military; a real hard core tacti-cool mall ninja type video gamer would simply obtain (via ebay, see above?) a BOSE tank crewman headset so as to look cool even if somewhat uncomfortable.
3) searching images.google.com for CVC Helmet Porn found a remarkable amount of CVC helmet pictures, and a remarkable amount of bad porn, but no CVC helmet porn in the sense of "chicks shooting M16s" type of thing. I do believe I've found a violation of Rule 34. I hope that doesn't mean the world is ending or the stars are quietly going out or the zombie invasion has begun. I just never thought I'd find a rule 34 violation on the internet. That is.. so weird. Like am I connected to the internet or did my modem drop or WTF? Where is CVC helmet pr0n? Now I'm worried.
(Score: 5, Funny) by takyon on Wednesday May 30 2018, @08:55PM (1 child)
Sometimes you have to be the pornographer you want to see in the world.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @10:05PM
Congratulations, takyon. You win the Internet for today!
Seriously, you put a smile on my face anyway.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday May 30 2018, @09:56PM (1 child)
Submarines have thermoelectric coolers lining the insides of their hulls.
This because they are very quiet.
But just now I realized that disposing of the vast quantity of heat in the ultra pure reactor coolant water must be quite a challenge. Dad passed away in 2003 so I can't ask him to blow his clearance anymore.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday May 31 2018, @12:05AM
MHD pump? May work well if the coolant is conductive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31 2018, @10:15AM
If you don't mind hentai I think some of these might qualify (obviously VERY NSFW! Click at own risk!):
https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1586934 [gelbooru.com]
https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1707518 [gelbooru.com]
https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1903793 [gelbooru.com]