If you’re in good health, have access to the thermostat, and plan on using your hands to do things like type or wear long sleeves, this device isn’t worth your money. The Embr Wave is worn on the inside of the wrist. During one memorable moment, I pushed the Embr Wave to its highest temperature-and still watched goosebumps rise on my forearm. There were times while I was testing where I couldn’t tell if I felt any warmer overall, or was just sidetracked from the frigid office air by the strange device on my wrist. The first time we reviewed the Embr Wave we thought the placebo effect was the device's main attribute, and my testing backs that up. It’s unusual to feel the temperature change so quickly on your wrist, and that sensation can redirect your attention away from any miserable environmental factors. It's a novel sensation for sure, like pressing an ice cube to your wrist.” “It's too small to provide any type of long term comfort or prevent heatstroke or hypothermia. “In my opinion, this device is akin to Tiger Balm-a method of distraction,” he told me after trying it. The Embr Wave weighs about as much as an Apple Watch.Our colleague Jon Chan agreed. It doesn’t travel through my body at all, so it’s just my wrist that’s affected.” If anything, the slight increase of cold is so shocking that it doesn’t even feel good. At 9:30 PM that night, I got a Slack message with her first, punctuation-heavy reaction: “I don’t like this!!!!!” She elaborated the next morning, “I was hoping the Embr Wave could keep me cool and sweat-free on my commute to and from work, but alas, it did next to nothing. When she saw what I was testing, she became excited and asked to borrow it to counteract her uncomfortably hot train rides to and from the office. My coworker Melissa Rorech is one of those people. People who are susceptible to minor weather changes might find the Embr Wave more useful than I do. My body temperature seems to regulate itself normally I've only had issues when suffering from fevers and one unfortunate hypothermia incident after a day of snow skiing. I can’t speak for people who have internal issues with thermal regulation. The cooling phase, in particular, goes against your natural expectations that a surface will warm with your touch, so there’s something counterintuitive and interesting about it. When you wear the device, a spot on your wrist will feel the warmth or coolness it emits, and it’s a pleasant, even intriguing, sensation. In one sense, the Embr Wave does exactly what it claims. The verdict: The Embr Wave is a nifty idea built into a clunky, awkward, and expensive novelty that is far from delivering on its promise.
I wore the Embr Wave on and off for a few weeks to test it out and see whether or not it could keep me cool in a heat wave or warm me up in overzealous office air conditioning. There's also an app you can use to change the temperature with a little more control. Pressing a button on the device makes it heat up (or cool down) against your wrist, which then-according to the manufacturers-warms (or cools) the rest of you. You wear the Embr Wave on the inside of your wrist, directly against the pulse point said to be so sensitive to temperature change that targeting it with heat or cold can thermoregulate the entire body. The wrist-worn device-just a little bigger than an Apple Watch-comes with an inch-wide magnetic metal strap that fastens it around your arm. Enter the Embr Wave, a marvelously weird device that promises to regulate your body temperature through your wrist, for the not-so-bargain price of $299. While HVAC technology can precisely control indoor environment, you may have to win a battle over the thermostat to customize it to your exact preference, and that personal comfort could go out the door if you, well, go outside.Īt this point in society’s technological evolution you would think we’d have an easy way to control the atmosphere in our own personal space. One person may prefer the air to be 65 degrees with 65% humidity, another would be more comfortable with it warmer and dryer. The fact is, no temperature will ever be perfect for everyone.
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