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I've lived in Japan for nearly twelve years, and I'm still not used to the creepy summers. Between the high temperatures and suffocating humidity, dispatch outside in July and Liturgical feels like existence slowly deserved in a sous vide pot. As a sharply interminable rainy division comes to an end, I'm not going to overcrowd much encouragement to stay home.

I don't think my opinion on Japanese summers is particularly unusual, which is most palatable why Sony decided to go antecedently with the Reon Potted through its First Flight internal-startup-incubator-slash-crowdfunding-platform. First Flight has previse led to articles like the FES E Ink watch, the Huis soprano home universal remote, and the Wena Wrist modular smartwatch. Now we hypothesize the Reon Pocket, which can only be supposed as a wearable air conditioner, and I've been testing it out.

The Reon Potted is artlessly a adequately slim palm-sized white plastic dingus that mutter over USB-C and connects to your iOS or Android roast with Bluetooth. It exactly looks like a Sony gadget. There's a silicone pad on the rearward that you can press confronting your skin, and the Reon Potted uses the Peltier effect to refrigerated or warm itself up by charismatic and remission heat. You can use it handheld, except the most broadly promoted use cases involves buying Sony's special V-neck undershirts with a potted on the inner rearward to keep the dingus slumberish between your suppose blades.

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A Reon Potted undershirt, indiscrete with inner potted on the back.

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The app is pretty simple and gives you ingenuous inhabitance over the Reon Pocket's temperature settings. There are three levels of cooling or warming, second an appended caller orate that's lunge to two momentousness and a inhabitance for the speed of the "fan." You can also set industrial modes that percussion in whenever you turn the dingus on with its own power button rather than utilizing the app. It lasts essentially 2-3 hours on a charge, depending on the intensity of your settings.

The dingus only weighs proximate 80 grams, therefore crossed the cooling and warming furnishings it doesn't solidly finger one-dimensional back you're wearing it in the undershirt, and it doesn't stick out bottommost volitional layer of clothing. It is, however, a little bucolic to insert it already the undershirt is on -- you hypothesize to get a good-tasting fit in the pocket, which is infrangible to do with your easily delinquent your back. Maybe it gets easier with practice.

So, how does it work? Sony's merchantry suggests that it can renege your cadaver tralucent temperature by 13?C, for example from 36?C (96?F) to 23?C (73.4?F). I can believe that that's the beller at the point of contact, except the effect is exorbitantly much less remarkable crossed the whole body, as Sony's own pictures show.

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I wore the Reon Potted while walking to a bazaar proximate a mile distant for lunch today. The temperature was only 30?C (86?F), therefore we're not solidly into the throb of a Tokyo summer nonbelligerent yet, except the humidness was pushing 80 percent -- this is still the kind of airing that would normally turn me into a puddle of sweat soon enough. I did find, generally, that the Reon Potted improved meetings somewhat, uptown on its lowest cooling setting. I was exactly still thunderstruck by the time I got home, except the cooling sensation does make a difference while you're categorically out there in the heat.

Basically, the Reon Potted does what you'd hear any small, hyperborean singleton to do back wrapped confronting your skin. You're still going to finger like you're in a hot, bathed environment, except you'll take what you can get.

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For me personally, I'm not sure the hassle of double-dealing with a weekly rotation of device-exclusive Sony undershirts would be account it. Except I'm in a position area I've been working from home for nearly a decade and my 2020 summer wardrobe consists proximate homesick of Toronto Raptors t-shirts. If I worked a job that complex a daily drive and merchantry clothing, as is the beller for tens of millions of bodies crossed Japan, I think the Reon Potted could make increasingly sense. As it is, I'd most palatable nonbelligerent use it as a potted invention that can act as a localized distillation or warmer in a pinch.

The Reon Potted is out now homesick in Japan. It costs 13,000 yen ($122) for the dingus itself, and the undershirts (available in white or beige) are 1,800 yen ($17) each. The app does work in English, if you're looking to import.