Rechargeable Personal AC

There’s a very specific kind of despair that sets in around 2pm on a warm British afternoon, when the office thermostat is locked in a permanent stalemate between “too hot” and “someone’s cardigan,” and your laptop fan has started sounding like a small aircraft preparing for take-off. You could open a window. You could fashion … Read more

Three a.m., duvet kicked to the floor, and you’re staring at the ceiling wondering why your bedroom feels like a greenhouse. Sound familiar? A personal air cooler for bedroom use is a small, close-range cooling device — a fan, evaporative cooler, or rechargeable mini air conditioner — designed to chill the air immediately around you … Read more

There’s a very specific kind of misery that arrives every June: lying on top of the duvet at 1am, sweating gently, wondering why nobody in Britain ever bothers installing proper air conditioning. A rechargeable personal AC won’t fix the national housing stock, but it will fix your immediate problem — the one where you’re too … Read more