Video: MIT Alumni Bring Spacesuit Tech to Temperature-Regulating Dress Shirts

This is a great concept! I've been waiting for a temperature regulating shirt for my whole life. Can't wait for these to hit the shelves.

Here's a simple idea that this environmentally concerned publication and readership should consider. What if; and just follow me through on this... What if people just started spending more time outside and acclimated themselves to the world around them instead of trying to invent air conditioned shirts? I've worked in 130+ outside shoveling sand off of a road in the middle of an Iraqi summer after a sandstorm, so I really can't understand the mentality of an office worker who can't make their commute on an air conditioned city bus or up a few flights of stairs without breaking into a full blown sweat. It seems like if you soil your shirt just getting to work, then you might need the changes, not the shirt.

@ SgtB; While I definitely agree that people need conditioning in a very real way, it's also a fact that this product release is aimed at suit wearers. Business types of that sort associate 100% neat and tidy with all around competence. Especially under stress, which commonly has nothing to do with temperature. This would wick it away, and neutralize the smell. If they are already putting what they can afford into a suit, then why not this instead of another top brand shirt providing it has a good look and fit?
Personally, even being well used to working in the hottest parts of the U.S. in very demanding trades and being strict with my hydration weren't enough to keep me from getting a case of heat exhaustion one summer that I would have died from had I been alone.

@sgtB you realize that the more in shape you are, the easier you sweat regardless of that "not breaking a sweat" cliche and showing up to work a sweaty mess isn't really an option in most offices.

If by getting acclimated you mean stop sweating at high temperatures then your not acclimated your dehydrated or your body has reduced the amount of energy its using and you'll end up feeling lethargic all the time. This probably wouldn't be good for shoveling. Your body needs sweat to maintain temperature for operating efficiency otherwise you need to maintain temperature some other way. The low energy mode is not desirable in any situation except survival scenarios so to avoid temperature maintenance by sweat you must maintain temperature synthetically.

We're very proud of Kevin and Gihan, graduates of the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program. As GELs, Kevin and Gihan picked up many of the skills and capabilities they're now using at MoS.

I highly recommend to anyone searching for a job, clean tight hair hcut, clean clothes, nice white shirt and one color tie, dark pants, dark polish clean shoes.

Work is about productivity. Come to work with the focus and mental outlook as yourself this simply question all day long, "HOW MUCH CAN I GET DOWN and if I run into an obsitical, deal with it and be productive at something else, until you can get back to it. ALWAYS BE PRODUCTIVE!".
Yea, sure you job description desribes this and that, but do not be afraid to be adaptive.

Yes you to can lift broom, file some papers and take out a bucket of trash. I remember I had to shit a desk to work on a computer. To my surprise the President of the company started helping me shift the desk. BE PRODUCTIVE!

At work, conversation is to get along with everyone and just be productive. You can be strange, odd, freely artistic when you leave.

No one tolerates drugs or illegal behavior.

LOL, replace down with done and shit with shift. Oye, I hate when I am in a hurry and do not use spell check... ha ha.

@Robot Thanks to your typos I have had a most enjoyable laugh. I have never had to "shit a desk" in my life. I'm still laughing as I type this.

empjag,
LOL, snort.... goofy me.

@ Robot
Sorry you had to shit a desk, must have been a terrible pain in the backside.

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@ Zomb, It is obvious that you are aware that the body has more than one mode of thermal regulation. However, you completely overlook the fact that the body can become acclimated to a temperature, say 72 or 120 and the point at which you become uncomfortable or sweat depends upon how your body reacts and how fast it changes in reaction to deviation from that acclimated temperature. It is not a given that every person in an 80 degree bus will break out into a sweat to keep cool. That would be your fantasy of a perfect and homogenous world. People who are out of shape and live their entire lives in a 72 degree bubble will sweat when a warm breeze rolls through. While you may have based your claims on "scientific" or "medical" data, mine are based upon first hand empirical evidence and common sense.

Also, why isn't the first group targeted as consumers of this product welders or foundry workers? Those men could use a cool shirt more than a guy working in a tie trying to impress everyone.

I applaud this new application and reuse of existing technology and the methods to bring it to market are testament to crowd-sourced, dynamic development of products & services that at once create something that solves a problem that it invented in the first place.

OK, that's a stretch on this one, but neat product aside, why are we ignoring the cause [climate change]? Another aspect to this is that adapting to the environment is the body's natural capability to evolve - unless we find a shortcut to comfort through technology. Then, when our unchallenged bodies don't have to keep busy adapting, it finds other things to do, like creating cancerous cells just to keep us on our toes.

Seriously, though - find a better way to exist within our means with minimum impact to the climate would be my choice of investing that kind of money. By converting gas-powered vehicles to liquified propane injection (LPI), we could lower the average world temperature by a whole 6 degrees (F) and air quality would improve so much that respiratory health would also improve drastically.

Since our engines would last ten times longer, the already-cheap conversion would more than pay for itself quickly, along with the 1/3 cost of the fuel, which is "harvested" easily without the pollution-heavy impact that drilling for oil always brings.

The only thing keeping our vehicle fuel standards from graduating from 19th-century technology to the 21st is a simple commitment to implement infrastructure (LPI fuel at the gas pumps) and a government program to assure easy, safe and economical access to the conversions, with tax breaks and other incentives to convert.

This kind of project would definitely impact life on earth in a positive, constructive manner, simply by connecting the dots.