By Leo Lutero, Source: PSFK

The developers behind Wristify say the bracelet works like dipping your toes in a pool on a hot day or a hot towel on the forehead on a cold night. Instead of actually altering the body temperature, it just sends hot or cold pulses through the wrist.

How our body reacts to the temperature of the environment is never really accurate. This is the reason why a room may be too cold for you but perfectly fine for a friend.

The Wristify concept was created by embr labs, a group founded by four MIT students. In an interview with Wired, Sam Shames, one of the inventors, says it started with wondering why being in the same temperature-controlled room would cause a different reaction between him and his mother. With his initial research, he found out that how we perceive temperature is highly perceptive.

Wristify comes into its near-final form. By tapping into 30 years of temperature comfort research and letting designer Niccolo Casas design an exterior, the product is almost ready to snap on to wrists. Although the bracelet looks like a designer jewelry piece, it has a rather unsightly past The first prototype included a big temperature conductor clinging on the user’s wrist with a fake Rolex strap. The design was scrapped when ember labs realized the same effect could be achieved by covering a slightly smaller patch of skin.

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