Air Conditioning Anywhere?

This little thing is called the Evapolar. It's a desktop air conditioner that you can place anywhere without a need to vent it like a traditional air conditioner. It's not as powerful as a standard air conditioner, but it's a cool solution if you need to create a microclimate.

From the manufacturer -

Evapolar emulates a similar natural air cooling process unlike most air conditioners that simply create a strong flow of cold dry air that may lead to catching a cold.

Evapolar captures large particles of dust from the airflow making it easier for you to breathe thus improving your productivity.

No need for installation – just plug it in and feel the sensation. All you need is a wall socket to immediately feel the cooling effects of this portable air conditioning unit. No screws, drills, or heavy lifting required.

FOLLOW ME IN THESE PLACES FOR UPDATES

[Moostery]

Are you fucking kidding me. $250 for a swamp cooler? Literally all that is, is a fan and a water pump. I've made those myself for under $20 before. By the way, they only work in dry climates. They perform extremely poorly if the humidity is already high.

[VirusKingx]

I used to be a fan. Now I'm an air conditioner.

[KeffandMac]

It's a fucking mini swamp cooler.

[wardv.]

1:09 Throws user manual away: "We don't need that"
3:54 Needs user manual

[scheimong]

I live in Shanghai, and this little thing reminds me of an interesting story. In 2008 Spain expo, they basically took the physics behind this thing, and replaced air conditioners. There were spays of very thin water at various locations, and it was cool. So two years later designers at Shanghai went, hmmm, looks effective, and they went on to copy it over to 2010 Shanghai expo. And it failed. Pretty dramatically. You see, Shanghai's average humidity is around 75%. Many times it can go up to 80 or 90. Well, when water (and sweat) cant evaporate, those water sprays basically just wetted everyone's cloth even more than they already are. Added to the fact that there were just so many people at Shanghai expo (like, the queue time for the exhibition with the shortest queue, was around one hour. The one with the longest queue has something like 8 hours queue time. Crazy.), every queue was literally a steam room. This is just a simple example that shows the weakness of this technology.

[shehzad]

it's a water cooler :). some tech so old, when it come out again it new thing

[gearsofwarxXx]

LOL Wow. The ONLY difference between this and the Arctic Air is that this water tank is detachable. And the Arctic is $40 at Walmart and is the exact same type of product.

[zollotech]

I'm with you...It's better to be a little cold to stay awake and focused.

[AZREDFERN]

It's a swamp cooler. It passes air through a damp "filter" and the water absorbs heat out of the air. Despite the name, they work best in dry environments. The closer you are to 100% humidity, the water in the device won't be able to absorb heat. It's called a "swamp cooler" because in places like Phoenix AZ, it's 0% humidity and 110f outside. Before an AC was developed that could handle being run 24/7 in an environment that never drops below 90f in the summer, everyone had "swamp coolers" (AC's were too expensive to buy and run too). You would trade 110f and 0% humidity for 80-90f and 50-100% humidity indoors. Hot and humid like a swamp. An "Air Conditioner" is actually a heat exchanger. It has a closed gas loop, compresses the gas outdoors, it gets super hot. Then it passes through a radiator outside, returns to ambient temperature, then returns indoors. The gas is rapidly expanded, becomes ice cold (literally, your freezer works the same way), passes through a radiator indoors, and that's where you get the cold air. Then the gas continues back outside to be compressed and start over. Now, the humidity in air condenses when it gets cold like a sweating beer can. It does this rather well on the cold radiator of an AC because how cold it is plus the surface area. This leaves you with a de-humidifying effect and dry air indoors. A miniature swamp cooler can really take advantage of this, because the air is always near 0% humidity. It's actually a pretty clever device if you already like having a desk fan, but it also can cool the air a few degrees, uses very little power (2.5 to 12.5 watts) and looks pretty nice.

[michaelexile]

this was exactly what I needed until i saw the price

[mattiooo]

Lew is just a mysterious guy all around. We are as clueless as to whether his cameraman is real as to whether his giveaways are real.

[atranas]

It's just evaporative cooling and it wont work in high humidity area. It works just because the air in your office is dry because of the air conditioning system. Blowing dry & cold air through the thing does making the temperature lower because the evaporation of water took the heat from the dry air and make it more humid.

[Lenaaard]

This shot was like 300 dollars 2 years ago... Now it's like 64 bucks that says something lol

[TheDormonid]

too bad he doesn´t mention the price of this "little thing". over 300 US Dollars is too much money ...

[AFO]

Says he likes to stay cool....wears a sweater....

[manasvardhan]

It's 24 damn degrees in the room, I live in India and that's the most pleasant the weather ever gets.

[_checktease]

this is nothing more than a high-priced miniature evaporative cooler. it should work alright in areas of low humidity, but if you live in places like Houston or Atlanta or Chicago more Ohio or any of those places where there is relatively high this is not going to do any good. it will just blow soggy air. and at $179 it's the price of a small window unit air conditioner.

[Northcalifornia]

I never thought I'd willingly spend this much time watching commercials

[harshtiwari]

it's a fucking mini cooler. it pretty common in india but we get it for less than $300

[alejandro]

At the end of the day your room will be warmer than before **T H E R M O D Y N A M I C S**