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Our Design Challenges are Too Complicated... We should be solving the real problems..

cstanton
cstanton over 2 years ago

Like designing products to solve why I'm stuck to this pleather chair in 83.8 deg F heatwaves and why we don't have a way to keep it cool.

If you're from the UK you'll know that air conditioning here really isn't a thing, and it's even harder if you're renting.

When you're working from home, this starts to get to be a challenge, a real hot one. There's only so much I can get from swamp coolers and fans blowing at me, and keeping the curtains shut.

What's worse though, is how hot the chairs are. Why on earth don't we have cooling chairs?

I mean, thermaltake have a cooling gaming chair. I'm not convinced about it though, but I'm even less convinced about this, which looks like five laptop fans stuck together in a pad:

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We used to have a wild idea of design challenges where people managed to produce products that would sell... if someone can get away with selling this kind of thing on amazon, phew do we overthink things :D

But seriously... how can I cool this chair? Maybe I should have heatpipes in the base...

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  • dougw
    dougw over 2 years ago +4
    If you just want cool, .... Get a canvas beach chair, get it wet, put a fan under it, strip off your pants, and have seat. Of course, this assumes you are not in an open concept office....
  • Gough Lui
    Gough Lui over 2 years ago +4
    Perhaps what is really needed .... is a heat-pump. Obligatory XKCD - this week's too: https://xkcd.com/2790/ We've had refrigerated CPUs in overclocked PCs ... (like this https://www.trustedreviews.com…
  • Gough Lui
    Gough Lui over 2 years ago +3
    cstanton said: if someone can get away with selling this kind of thing on amazon, phew do we overthink things :D I'd be more concerned about the people who can be convinced to buy such a thing and leave…
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  • ntewinkel
    ntewinkel over 2 years ago

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    My first thought: mesh deck/camping chair with a wet towel on it and a fan underneath pointed upward. But the wet towel could get uncomfortable, and you’d get towel marks on your bottom.

    Further thought gets a little more complex… use the rain-screen type material that’s normally used under siding to allow airflow. It provides a small air gap. We can make a seat cushion with that in it, then hook up the large hose from the outlet of an oversized portable air conditioning unit directly to the inlet side of it. We can direct the outlet side to go upward for bonus cooling of lower and upper back too. Or just use a computer fan if you wanna be that way Shrug‍

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  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave over 2 years ago in reply to ntewinkel

    '260 sq ft per roll sold only in pallet quantity' - that's quite a bottom we are dealing with here ! Slight smile

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    beacon_dave over 2 years ago in reply to ntewinkel

    '260 sq ft per roll sold only in pallet quantity' - that's quite a bottom we are dealing with here ! Slight smile

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