{"id":100751,"date":"2020-01-12T16:42:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T00:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/engineers-design-on-skin-electronic-device-providing-a-personal-air-conditioner-without-needing-electricity"},"modified":"2020-01-12T16:42:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T00:42:40","slug":"engineers-design-on-skin-electronic-device-providing-a-personal-air-conditioner-without-needing-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/engineers-design-on-skin-electronic-device-providing-a-personal-air-conditioner-without-needing-electricity","title":{"rendered":"Engineers design on-skin electronic device providing a personal air conditioner without needing electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-design-on-skin-electronic-device-providing-a-personal-air-conditioner-without-needing-electricity3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One day, soldiers could cool down on the military battlefield\u2014preventing heat stroke or exhaustion\u2014by using \u201cwearable air conditioning,\u201d an on-skin device designed by engineers at the University of Missouri. The device includes numerous human health care applications such as the ability to monitor blood pressure, electrical activity of the heart and the level of skin hydration.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are detailed in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike similar products in use today or other related concepts, this breathable and waterproof device can deliver personal air conditioning to a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/human+body\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human body<\/a> through a process called passive cooling. Passive cooling does not utilize electricity, such as a fan or pump, which researchers believe allows for minimal discomfort to the user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day, soldiers could cool down on the military battlefield\u2014preventing heat stroke or exhaustion\u2014by using \u201cwearable air conditioning,\u201d an on-skin device designed by engineers at the University of Missouri. The device includes numerous human health care applications such as the ability to monitor blood pressure, electrical activity of the heart and the level of skin [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,9,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-military","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}