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Your backpack may be anti-theft, it may be modular, it may be lightweight, waterproof, dust-resistant, travel-friendly, it may have an in-built USB port, RFID blocking, or may have literal solar panels on it but at the end of the day your sufficiently advanced backpack still has one design drawback. Wear it for long enough and you get this patch of sweat around your back from the constant contact with the bag, and the lack of proper ventilation.
Sweaty-back syndrome, as designer Kenny Tai calls it, happens to the best of us and backpacks, up until now, havent really been built to combat that pool of perspiration that forms on your fancy shirt when you take your backpack off at the office. I say up until now because Kenny claims to have built a bag that solves the problem. The VITL is perhaps the first bag with active cooling technology and a specifically designed airflow system to keep your back ventilated. Having spent a year on just engineering a solution, Tai looked at desktop computers and laptops for inspiration. Studying their compact fans and distinct airflow patterns, Tai and his team of engineers crafted a solution. The trick wasnt just to mount a fan on the backpack, but rather to channel the flow of air in a logical manner. The result was VITLs thermodynamic cooling system, designed to pull air from the base and distribute it evenly upward, working almost like a heat-sink to cool your back. With VITLs engineered cooling core, you could possibly wear your backpack for hours, even with an active lifestyle, and you wouldnt feel the stickiness of perspiration or the fatigue of carrying a backpack. The cooling system runs using an ultra-silent fan, so your backpack doesnt make awkward whirring noises, and comes with three speed settings for you to choose from.
The cooling system, however, forms just one feature of the VITL backpack. Having engineered a solution to the sweaty-back syndrome, Kenny moved on to actually designing a backpack around his air-flow technology. Rather than limiting the VITL to just one aesthetic, Kenny and his band of design collaborators decided to make the VITL modular. With the cooling unit being a constant, Kenny and his team designed swappable backpack designs that you could interchange with a simple zip and clasp action. Depending on your need, you could choose a backpack skin that suited your requirements the best, switching between 18 and 28 liter variants or choosing your skin based on your personal sense of style.
With its swappable backpack bodies and the thermodynamic cooling system that remains constant, VITL taps into a very new sort of design domain. It offers freedom (something most backpacks dont) along with a feature thats revolutionary in the backpack world, helping you look cool as well as feel cool literally!
Designer: Kenny Tai
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With its built-in cooling system and modular interchangeable styles, the VITL backpack has something for everyone.
Most people experience heat buildup between their backs and backpacks, causing discomfort and in some instances, even embarrassment.
The patent-pending VITL is the only cooling backpack that actually works during long commutes.
The modular skin system allows you to use the same active-cooling system with any of their skins. These skins are designed to give you utility in all situations, in a variety of styles.
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Ive lived in Japan for nearly twelve years, and Im still not used to the awful summers. Between the high temperatures and suffocating humidity, stepping outside in July and August feels like being slowly cooked in a sous vide pot. As a seemingly interminable rainy season comes to an end, Im not going to need much encouragement to stay home.
I dont think my opinion on Japanese summers is particularly unusual, which is probably why Sony decided to go ahead with the Reon Pocket through its First Flight internal-startup-incubator-slash-crowdfunding-platform. First Flight has previously led to products like the FES E Ink watch, the Huis smart home universal remote, and the Wena Wrist modular smartwatch. Now we have the Reon Pocket, which can only be described as a wearable air conditioner, and Ive been testing it out.
The Reon Pocket is a fairly slim palm-sized white plastic device that charges over USB-C and connects to your iOS or Android with Bluetooth. It definitely looks like a Sony gadget. Theres a silicone pad on the back that you can press against your skin, and the Reon Pocket uses the Peltier effect to cool or warm itself up by absorbing and releasing heat. You can use it handheld, but the most widely promoted use cases involves buying Sonys special V-neck undershirts with a pocket on the inner back to keep the device resting between your shoulder blades.
The app is pretty simple and gives you direct control over the Reon Pockets temperature settings. There are three levels of cooling or warming, plus an additional boost mode thats limited to two minutes and a control for the speed of the fan. You can also set automatic modes that kick in whenever you turn the device on with its own power button rather than using the app. It lasts around 2-3 hours on a charge, depending on the intensity of your settings.
The device only weighs about 80 grams, so beyond the cooling and warming effects it doesnt really feel noticeable when youre wearing it in the undershirt, and it doesnt stick out beneath another layer of clothing. It is, however, a little awkward to insert it once the undershirt is on you need to get a good fit in the pocket, which is hard to do with your hands behind your back. Maybe it gets easier with practice.
So, how does it work? Sonys marketing suggests that it can reduce your body surface temperature by 13°C, for example from 36°C (96°F) to 23°C (73.4°F). I can believe that thats the case at the point of contact, but the effect is clearly much less pronounced across the whole body, as Sonys own pictures show.
I wore the Reon Pocket while walking to a supermarket about a mile away for lunch today. The temperature was only 30°C (86°F), so were not quite into the swing of a Tokyo summer just yet, but the humidity was pushing 80 percent this is still the kind of walk that would normally turn me into a puddle of sweat soon enough. I did find, generally, that the Reon Pocket improved matters somewhat, even on its lowest cooling setting. I was definitely still sweating by the time I got home, but the cooling sensation does make a difference while youre actually out there in the heat.
Basically, the Reon Pocket does what youd expect any small, cold object to do when held against your skin. Youre still going to feel like youre in a hot, sweaty environment, but youll take what you can get.
For me personally, Im not sure the hassle of dealing with a weekly rotation of device-exclusive Sony undershirts would be worth it. But Im in a position where Ive been working from home for nearly a decade and my summer wardrobe consists almost exclusively of Toronto Raptors t-shirts. If I worked a job that involved a daily commute and business clothing, as is the case for tens of millions of people across Japan, I think the Reon Pocket could make more sense. As it is, Id probably just use it as a pocket gadget that can act as a localized cooler or warmer in a pinch.
The Reon Pocket is out now exclusively in Japan. It costs 13,000 yen ($122) for the device itself, and the undershirts (available in white or beige) are 1,800 yen ($17) each. The app does work in English, if youre looking to import.
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