MIT prize winning invention regulates body temperature

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Sometimes you’re too hot. Other times you’re too cold. This little device is designed to make you just right all the time.

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Heating or cooling certain parts of your body — such as applying a warm towel to your forehead if you feel chilly — can help maintain your perceived thermal comfort.

Using that concept, four MIT engineering students developed a thermoelectric bracelet that monitors air and skin temperature, and sends tailored pulses of hot or cold waveforms to the wrist to help maintain thermal comfort.

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