Air conditioning

How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer

For many of us, air conditioning results in our biggest utility expense during the summer months. Well, summer is officially here, and so is Prof. Dealzmodo to lay some tips on you for keeping cool without going broke. Fans At the very least a regular fan, a twin window fan that takes advantage of cool…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Brendan Koerner Teaches Stephen Colbert About CFLs and the Environment

Friend of Giz and contributing editor Brendan I. Koerner was on the Colbert Report last night to school Stephen on ways to save the environment. Koerner discussed the paper/plastic debate, using air conditioning vs. windows, and whether it’s cheaper to buy CFLs or regular bulbs. Colbert let the green-concious Koerner off pretty easy, but he…

Television Benny Goldman

10 Gadgets For Air-Conditioned Summer Survival

For many of us, the first day of summer starts just before midnight tonight. That means it is time to start thinking about how to beat the heat when the temperatures soar and the air conditioning unit in your home or office inevitably breaks down. In this scenario, survival means being prepared for anything. The…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Air-Conditioned Tie 2.0 From Thanko Knot Very Fabulous, Really

Those egg-heads from Thanko have spent the best part of a year banging their large, domed cerebelli together, tackling what is without doubt the biggest question that the human race faces this millennium: how to upgrade their air-conditioned tie. And this is what they came up with—hiding the fan grille behind the fabric. Let us…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Air-Conditioned Bed Is Almost Way Cheaper Than A/C

For those who have been softened by years of artificially produced 72-degree work, sleep and play, this “air-conditioned bed” is a promising tool to fight midsummer sleep sweat. A simple air pad that circulates fresh air under your body, the air-conditioned bed gets the cool air just where you need it-under your sweaty backside (a…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Do We Care About Air-Conditioning Units? We Do When They Have Friends Like Her

This is Samsung’s new air-conditioning unit from its Hauzen range. Blah blah blah blah pretty laydee blah blah legs blah blah is she smiling at me blah blah BLAH. Gallery below, and feel free to improve on my captions in the comments. [Akihabara News]

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Self-Installed Car/Home A/C Unit, Part II

There’s apparently more than one man who thinks it’s a fantastic idea to strap a home AC unit to a car and drive it around. This Toyota Camry station wagon, snapped by a bug-eyed Jalopnik reader, has the AC strapped on the back, instead of the top, so that it can easily kill whoever’s tailgating…

Tech News Jason Chen

How to Get Free Air Conditioning From Your Water System

Some cheap guy came up with a way to get “free” air conditioning by cycling up his 50-degree well water through a home-made pipe/radiator system and dispersing the coolness into his house. It’s really, really ugly, but it does save some money on your cooling bill. Useful if you live in really hot areas and…

Tech News Jason Chen

Herman Miller C2 Climate Control for the Cubicle

This week, San Francisco is entering another one of those “heatwaves” as the newspaper calls them. That’s 75 degrees, for those of you uninitiated to the reality of Bay Area micro climates. Which makes me think of this mini electric climate controller from the Herman Miller Be Collection. It can sit on a desk and…

Tech News Brian Lam

Air Conditioner or TiVo, You Decide

YouTube user Brainfreiz is having one hell of a predicament that is going to force him to decide between having air conditioning or TiVo. Watch the video to see how he got to that point and help him decide. It is a hot bitch out there, but taking away a man’s TiVo is like taking…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Desktop AC Keeps Your Immediate Surroundings Cool

Since you never leave your desk anyways, there’s no real point in air conditioning your entire house. I mean, why waste money on keeping all those rooms cool when you just need to keep your palmsweat from making you miss a frag in Counter-Strike? Well, this Desktop Air Conditioner looks to be a solution, if…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Honda Stays Cool, Old Skool

Everybody’s trying to stay cool this summer, and Honda is resorting to old-school low-tech for its Ohio plant, cooling it with good old-fashioned ice. During off-hours, at night when power is cheaper, they’re using two 450-ton chillers to make huge blocks of ice, and then they’re using them to cool off the air all day…

Gadgets Charlie White

USB Air Conditioned Shirt

When it comes to USB powered gadgets, this doesn’t just take the cake, it takes the entire bakery and then burns it down for the insurance money. The USB shirt has two fans on the left and right sides of the back, taking in air to cleanse all the sweat off your spare tire. There’s…

Gadgets Jason Chen

How To Keep Cool Without Going Broke This Summer

Brendan Koerner Teaches Stephen Colbert About CFLs and the Environment

10 Gadgets For Air-Conditioned Summer Survival

Air-Conditioned Tie 2.0 From Thanko Knot Very Fabulous, Really

Air-Conditioned Bed Is Almost Way Cheaper Than A/C

Do We Care About Air-Conditioning Units? We Do When They Have Friends Like Her

Self-Installed Car/Home A/C Unit, Part II

How to Get Free Air Conditioning From Your Water System

Herman Miller C2 Climate Control for the Cubicle

Air Conditioner or TiVo, You Decide

Desktop AC Keeps Your Immediate Surroundings Cool

Honda Stays Cool, Old Skool

USB Air Conditioned Shirt

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