14 DAY TRIAL // Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed an innovative bracelet that helps keep its wearer either warm or cold, depending on environmental conditions.
The bracelet, dubbed Wristify, works by sending pulses of hot or cold waves to the wrist.
According to Oil Price, these pulses are more than enough to trigger changes in the entire body's temperature, hence the fact that people can feel comfortable during both summer and winter without turning up the air conditioning or the heating system.
It goes without saying that this translates into significantly less energy consumption, and Mother Nature could not be happier.
“Buildings right now use an incredible amount of energy just in space heating and cooling. In fact, all together this makes up 16.5 percent of all US primary energy consumption,” explains Sam Shames, one of the students who worked on this project.
“We wanted to reduce that number, while maintaining individual thermal comfort. We found the best way to do it was local heating and cooling of parts of the body,” Sam further details.
The bracelet was entered into the MADMEC competition organized by the people at MIT every year, and managed to win the first prize.
The students who developed it promise to continue improving on the performances of the prototype they have thus far created and hope that, at some point in the future, they will be able to launch a commercial model.