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| Sharper Image Personal Cooling System 3.0 | 
 enlarge | Brand: Sharper Image
Category: Sports
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 68497
Media: Misc.
Model: SI758 SL2
UPC: 780352342682
ASIN: B000XO2LNC
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| Features:
| • | Contains a patented, miniature evaporative-cooling system your entire body enjoys up to four hours of relief. | | • | Fill with a few ounces of water, place around neck and switch on. | | • | Quiet motor drives a tiny fan that creates evaporative cooling. |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
When it's blazingly hot, don't you dread leaving the air-conditioned comfort of your home? Maybe you've tried an ice-soaked towel around your neck but that's nothing compared to the long-lasting, total-body comfort of our Personal Cooling SystemTM. It's the best way to stay comfortable and avoid heat stress when walking, mowing, gardening, watching sports or concerts just about any activity, anywhere. Our wearable invention houses a patented, miniature evaporative-cooling system. Just fill with a few ounces of water, place around your neck and switch it on: A quiet motor drives a tiny fan that creates evaporative cooling; flexible sides hold aluminum cooling plates against your neck and your entire body enjoys up to four hours of relief. What's more, the fan inside adds even more cooling by directing a gentle breeze over the back of your neck. Comes with 2-oz. water bottle for on-the-go refilling. It's trim and lightweight: the sleek body weighs just 10 oz. empty; 14 oz. filled. Runs on one AA battery
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Best Used with Hat with Neck Covering August 14, 2007
I live in sizzling north Central Texas and do quite a lot of yard work. Of course I follow the shade as much as possible. I am not a youngster; approaching 60. I have a pretty good tolerance to heat but when it gets up over 100F and approaching 105-110, as it frequently does in the summer here, anything helps.
You can really tell the difference when you aren't wearing it or the water needs refilling. Although the air that goes through it is not driven by a powerful fan the inside silver surface that touches your neck is quite chilly. Did I say you can really tell that it works by taking it off in 100+ degree weather and trying to work without it!
I do believe the secret for more success, in my situation, is using the cooler with a cap that has a neck cape that covers the back and sides of my neck. I use a mesh type baseball type cap from SolarVeil.
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I've tried putting chilled water in it but I don't think that makes any difference.
I've used it for 2 full summers now without approaching heat stroke, as I have in the past. Before I got this my husband came home one day as I was working in the yard and was so alarmed by my appearance that he insisted I immediately go in the house and that I not work outside any more in the hottest part of the day. I've now used it for two summers and have yet to have him insist I come in from the heat.
I took two of these down to the Yucatan Jungle for friends who live down there. It doesn't normally get as hot down there as it does in the hottest part of our summers but it is very humid which makes it seem hotter than the real temperature.
Sharper Image is not selling the Personal Cooling System at this time. The only place I have found it is on eBay. The silver neck surface on mine is beginning to deform and flake off from my heavy use of bug repellents on my neck so I'll be needing a new one soon.
If I didn't have this I would miss many hours tending to my yard and plants and sitting out in the heat, on the deck, enjoying the birds at my feeders. On the deck I also use a fan but I can't drag that fan all over the place.
I'm buying more than one just in case I have trouble finding it in the future.
 Huge Disappointment August 2, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Please do not waste your money. I bought this product with the hope that it would make my wait in the underground train station just a little bit easier to bear. Not too much to ask, however even with the unit on high, I felt nothing. A warning if you are not indoors and standing over a sink when refilling you will wind up with a big mess. Do yourself a favor and get one of those hand held mini fans, they are much cheaper and will probably keep you cooler.
personal air conditioner August 19, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Very disappointed- Feels cumbersome around the neck and blows very little air
doesn't work August 17, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
first 5 minutes: feels like having a cold towel on your neck
after 5 minutes: feels like you are wearing a warm/hot wet block on your neck
LISTEN TO EVERYONE AND DO NOT BUY IT July 27, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT. for people living in the hot desert, or even sunny florida, This is NOT the product you want.
It surely delivers some cool feeling the first 2 minutes you put it on (only because of the cold water not the equipment), but it wears off rapidly. If you are in real need of coldness, then I suggest wearing a wet towel or bandana, and stay properly hydrated. You wont look as dumb as if wearing a big noticeable collar and look different than everyone else.
This product would work better if it only had more cold generative power for hot temperatures.
NOT RECOMMENDED FOR DESERT TEMPERATURES
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