By Rachel Kaser
Rachel Kaser is a writer and former game critic from Central Texas.
An MIT-designed wearable that adjusts the wearers body temperature is now available for preorder. The Embr Wave previously called Wristify heats up (or cools down) the wearer through integrated touch controls on the wrist.
You touch one side of the devices interface to heat up and the other side to cool off. The students who designed it, now operating a company called Embr Labs, liken the heat setting to holding a warm coffee mug and the cold to sitting in a pool.
Im going to assume, without having tried it, that it actually adjusts temperature in the whole body and doesnt just, you know, give you a really hot or chilled wrist.
The students who made it say that, despite being called a personal thermostat, it doesnt actually tell you what your body temperature is. Instead, itll simply slide on a scale from hot to cold depending on what the user wants.
The most positive use I would get out of it would probably be heating my body with its incredibly low blood pressure in cold buildings where Im not allowed to look at the big thermostat theaters, for example. Im also looking forward to the day the device can be used in VR so I can feel like Im actually chilled by the cool mountain breezes in Skyrim. You know thats gotta be coming.
The Embr Wave made its Kickstarter goal and can be pre-ordered on that page now. The first units are estimated to be shipped in July 2018.
This article was previously published on The Next Web.
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