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    Giant Patio Heaters With Tiny Media Players Are Finally a Reality

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    Image of Hobolicious Hobolicious
    11/09/09

    In reply to Giant Patio Heaters With Tiny Media Players Are Finally a Reality
    I love that you have to be 6.5 feet tall to view that tiny screen properly. I can see it now:

    "Honey, why are you standing on a stool in the cold watching the game on that tiny screen?"

    "BECAUSE I CAN WATCH THE GAME AND KEEP MY JUNK TOASTY AT THE SAME TIME!" #poseidon
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    Image of tomsomething tomsomething
    11/09/09

    @Hobolicious: Not necessarily. You could sit really far back. Or you could could tilt the unit down by leaning it against some cardboard boxes or a pile of hay. #poseidon
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/09/09

    In reply to Giant Patio Heaters With Tiny Media Players Are Finally a Reality
    What an unfortunately irrelevant name for what it does.

    They should've put a Google panorama-cam on top of it instead. #poseidon
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    Image of Monty Monty
    11/09/09

    In reply to Giant Patio Heaters With Tiny Media Players Are Finally a Reality
    Apparently the tester at Chillchasers is Mephistopheles or they might have thought to put the media player on the other side away from the trap door to Hades. I just hope it has a nice back and forth motion so folks can move from side to side to follow the show they are watching -- great exercise, after all, and the heater makes it an outdoor sauna.

    Um, correct my stupidity here, but isn't a standard plug in the United States in the 110v range, and not a "standard" 220v option (which has multiple plugs available in this country, as I recall)?

    Fortunately the nice green color makes up for all of the other faults.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    11/09/09

    @Monty: It looks to be a UK product. #poseidon
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    Image of Monty Monty
    11/09/09

    @Shamoononon: Thanks for the tip - should have know it was those damn limey's.

    Hey, the heater on this thing might work for frying the hair off of the legs instead of shaving. Just a thought for you. #poseidon
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    11/09/09

    @Monty: I'll take that into consideration. #poseidon
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/09/09

    In reply to Giant Patio Heaters With Tiny Media Players Are Finally a Reality
    I dont "get" patio heaters. Put on a frigging sweater or go in the house, dont add your 2 cents to global warming. #poseidon
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    11/09/09

    @Curves: They create a pleasant sensation, akin to sitting around a fire. I agree that it's not the most energy-efficient way to be warm, though. #poseidon
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    Image of Muzzled Muzzled
    11/09/09

    In reply to Giant Patio Heaters With Tiny Media Players Are Finally a Reality
    I am a LOT more impressed by the floating umbrella #poseidon
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    11/09/09

    In reply to Giant Patio Heaters With Tiny Media Players Are Finally a Reality
    Hilariously tiny screen aside, this thing has some major issues. First, from a global carbon footprint point of view it is much more efficient to burn gas to produce heat than coal to produce electricity and electricity to produce heat. (before you jump on the coal thing, look it up, that's where most electricity comes from) Secondly, the design of most patio heaters features a reflector that reflects heat downward instead of letting it drift away. Shouldn't have gotten rid of that. Finally, the shiny green looks great in the renders, probably much less so in meatspace. That brushed steel of most heaters is more classy, imho. #poseidon
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    10/15/09

    In reply to Sweden's New Green Tech: Heating Homes With Bunny Corpses
    If they run out, they can harvest a crop of the rodents from my yard. I can't kill the things fast enough (mostly because effective means of doing so are illegal within city limits). #greentech
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    Image of Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon
    10/15/09

    In reply to Sweden's New Green Tech: Heating Homes With Bunny Corpses
    So sane it's insane. Kind of like inflammable.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    10/15/09

    @Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon: what's insane about inflammable? #greentech
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    Image of Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon
    10/15/09

    @Geisrud:
    inflammable == flammable && insane != sane
    /broken sarcasm detector #greentech
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    10/15/09

    @Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon: I assure you, I'm up to speed on my latin derived words. And as a firefighter, I am aware of what inflammable means. #greentech
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    Image of Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon Allwheeldriveturbosportwagon
    10/16/09

    @Geisrud: Toldya I can't detect sarcasm. #greentech
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    Image of FriarNurgle FriarNurgle
    10/15/09

    In reply to Sweden's New Green Tech: Heating Homes With Bunny Corpses
    Florida has a ton of old people... #greentech
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    10/15/09

    @FriarNurgle: Yeah, we know that. Everybody knows that. The thing is, I don't see what the big deal is all about...

    Oooohhohohoho. I see what you did there. #greentech
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    Image of DontFeedTheTrolls DontFeedTheTrolls
    02/20/09

    In reply to Room to Room Fan Helps Cut Down on Your Energy Bill
    I could see this thing breaking the first week. I had one of those pull up bars that go above the door and would constantly try to close the door with it still in place.
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    Image of ninjagin ninjagin
    02/20/09

    In reply to Room to Room Fan Helps Cut Down on Your Energy Bill
    Yeah, but what about the door? Honestly, I rather like the ability to keep certain rooms unheated, and with something like a door, I can make sure the cold air doesn't get where I don't want it. Sure, put this in a door frame, but beware of the door!
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    Image of Gann Gann
    02/20/09

    @ninjagin: It'd be cool to incorporate this concept into the door itself.
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    Image of Elvisisdead Elvisisdead
    12/29/08

    In reply to Vent-Miser Freezes Out the Guests On Schedule
    Nah - this would work much better in apartment buildings with central HVAC that keeps the entire building at a set temp, but it would only help you to restrict whatever was turned on, rather than make it more so. You couldn't get more heat- just make it not as hot during a certain time.


    Frankly, do ing this in a home will make the netire system LESS efficient. Especially if you were to set all the vents to close on the floor that had the thermostat. The heat would run all night because the thermostat would think that it's colder than the set temp in the whole house, because no heat is coming out and warming the thermostat floor.


    Likewise for closing vents in unused rooms. it just makes the whole house less efficient.

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/29/08

    @Elvisisdead:
    Well, but if you coordinate the vent timers with a programmable thermostat, and you don't mind tinkering around with it a bit, you could set it up so that the room with the thermostat receives less heat at a particular time of day, and that the thermostat is set to a lower setting during that time. Not too low, as you do still want it to push heat to other parts of the house.


    My townhouse gets a little wonky, though. The first floor is noticably warmer than the upstairs, and the basement is warmer still. I've shut all the vents in the basement and it still gets a ton of heat just from having all the ductwork running through it. The first floor is only being heated by one vent in the kitchen (not where the thermostat is located, though it is the closest one) and it feels fine. The first floor half-bath gets very cold in the winter and very warm in the summer, but that's because it has a vent but not a return (we just need to add an outflow fent in the door at some point and it should start to match the downstairs temp). The upstairs, I have every vent open but these condos are not insulated so the upstairs bleeds heat out at night. Heat's supposed to rise, but the reverse seems true in my home. Fortunately, the gas bill is covered by the HOA so I don't need to wear a parka to bed.

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    Image of BasicBlack BasicBlack
    12/29/08

    In reply to Vent-Miser Freezes Out the Guests On Schedule
    Or, you could press the little lever that closes or opens the vent.
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    Image of auslander auslander
    12/29/08

    @BasicBlack: My problem lies in the fact that I have two vents that are about 11 feet off the floor and really difficult to reach twice a day to flip the little lever.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/29/08

    @auslander: I added a wire loop to the end of a broomstick for this particular dilemma.
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    Image of scarbrtj scarbrtj
    12/29/08

    In reply to Vent-Miser Freezes Out the Guests On Schedule
    I have been looking for something like this FOREVER. AFAIK, this is the first? It'd be extra handy if something like an IR remote were added in the future. Sometimes it's not a "crummy HVAC" that causes problems; it's having rooms and vents far distant from the thermostat.
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    Image of tucker tucker
    12/29/08

    @scarbrtj: i agree, not for "crummy HVAC". i also agree that a remote would be nice, i don't even need the timer. i just want to be able to stop heating/cooling rooms that i am not using.
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    12/29/08

    @tucker: Get rid of unwanted holiday guests?
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    12/29/08

    @ SteveDave: hey man, Xmas is over. They want heat, they can pay rent.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/18/08

    In reply to USB Monkey Hand Warmer Is For Your Hands, Not A Monkey's
    They need to exptend the material a little farther to keep the fingers warm, not just the palms. I wish I had a set today, since its cold and snowy and my current hand warming method of sitting on one hand and warming it while typing with the other isnt that efficient.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/18/08

    @Curves: Get some speech recognition software and you can sit on your hands all day long...
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/18/08

    @Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: Voice Recog wont help; teeth chattering will mess up my diction.
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    Image of Mr.SithNinja Mr.SithNinja
    11/18/08

    @Curves: teeth chattering? Are they having you do data entry in a meat locker??
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/18/08

    @Curves: Or it might make for some interesting notes/reports...
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/18/08

    @Mr.SithNinja: I work in a landmark "historic" building, which in english means sweltering in the summer and frigid in the winter. I have not yet gotten my winter blood either. After a week or 2 of sub freezing temps, I will get used to it and it wont bother me much.
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