{"id":9256,"date":"2019-07-29T14:22:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T04:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=9256"},"modified":"2019-07-29T00:01:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T14:01:31","slug":"sony-is-crowdfunding-a-wearable-a-c-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/sony-is-crowdfunding-a-wearable-a-c-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony is crowdfunding a wearable A\/C unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9258\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/27124447\/image19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/27124447\/image19.jpg 960w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/27124447\/image19-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/27124447\/image19-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/27124447\/image19-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/27124447\/image19-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Called the Reon Pocket, the smartphone sized air-conditioner has been designed to wear on your body, fitting snuggly into a sewn pocket on the back of a customised t-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>The unit works using the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thermoelectric_effect#Peltier_effect\">Peltier effect<\/a>&#8220;, which I&#8217;d never heard of, and doesn&#8217;t heat or cool like traditional A\/C units but instead uses a small electrical current to either emit or absorb heat.<\/p>\n<p>Sony claim the device can cool you by 13C and heat you up 8C, with the unit running for a full 24 hours off of a single charge.<\/p>\n<p>Limited to Japan and Sony&#8217;s crowdfunding portal the Reon Pocket is selling for A$169 and slated to ship in March of 2020.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u30a4\u30f3\u30ca\u30fc\u30a6\u30a7\u30a2\u88c5\u7740\u578b \u51b7\u6e29\u4e21\u5bfe\u5fdc\u30a6\u30a7\u30a2\u30e9\u30d6\u30eb\u30c7\u30d0\u30a4\u30b9\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2dlzdZlbq2Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/sony-reon-pocket-is-a-crowdfunded-wearable-air-conditioner-and-heater-25585239\/\">Sony Reon Pocket is a crowdfunded wearable air conditioner and heater &#8211; SlashGear<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Called the Reon Pocket, the smartphone sized air-conditioner has been designed to wear on your body, fitting snuggly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9260,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9256\/revisions\/9260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}