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MRT Corp’s new kennel will help your pet stay cool with it’s built-in air conditioner
Pet owners often end up the conundrum of having to leave their pets at expensive kennels or having to leave the air conditioner on at home running up extra-large electricity bills when they travel or head off to work. This is worse in the hotter countries. But all that is about to change with the…
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Advanced air conditioner from Japan computes the power bill for you
Electricity has never been cheap in Japan and after the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster it has become more dearer. During summer season when the electricity consumption is at the highest consumers are charged a premium of upto 1.5 times of the usual electricity rate. To curb the high power bills there are a plethora of…
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Panasonic air conditioners can be voice controlled with a smartphone
Like most of the other companies, Panasonic is also trying very hard to integrate better connectivity with their appliances via smartphone app support. After their VIERA Smart TV app that lets you hook up to your TV via your handset, the latest from the company is the “Panasonic smart application” that will come with voice…
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Nest Labs will pay you to log your air conditioner usage
Bay Area-based start-up Nest Labs is driving a rather interesting campaign. The thermostat-focused company is promising to pay those who keep a check on the excessive air conditioning usage this summer. The check could range from between $20 to $60. All you need to do is sign up for certain plans with certain utility companies.…
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Sharp launches a first of its kind baby friendly air-conditioner
Sharp Japan has launched the C-SX Series of air conditioners which are designed specifically in such a way that the cold or hot gush of air does not hit the body directly. Termed as ‘baby friendly’ the indoor unit has what Sharp calls a ‘long panel airflow control’ which works with the onboard sensors to…
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Samsung Smart Q9000 air-conditioner cooks up a whirlwind, literally
Samsung has just unveiled the impressive Smart Q9000 air-conditioner that underlines the brand’s dominance on the Korean air-conditioner market. The company has won several accolades for its energy-efficient cooling technology and innovative, sleek design sense. The Q9000 offers all this and more, with an impressive power cooling technology called ‘High Pass Whirlwind’. This is an…
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LG’s Whisen air conditioner receives voice commands from up to 16 feet
Air conditioning systems aren’t really one of the quietest appliances. These devices are known to create a racket, sounding like old men with raspy voices. LG decided to step away from the world of noisy ACs and decided to give its customers sound sleep. Besides being quiet, this Whisen AC seems to be a great…
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Daikin becomes the first company to introduce earth saving HFC32 refrigerant in commercial products
Daikin has announced that all of its home air conditioning products that would be released from this fall will make use of the HFC32 refrigerant in a bid to reduce the effects of its products on global warming. This will make Daikin the first company in the world to use HFC32 which has only one-third…
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Mitsubishi air conditioners switch to power saving mode automatically when you aren’t in the room
Just couple of days back Panasonic released a range of X Series home appliances controlled remotely using cloud based smart app, today we learn that Mitsubishi Electric has announced the ZW series of Hybrid Kirigamine air conditioners for homes, which automatically switch to low-energy consumption mode when there is no person around it in the…
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Kuchofuku unveils air-conditioned pants with battery-powered fans!
Air conditioned clothing is slowly turning into quite a rage as people turn to geekier ways to brave the heat outdoors, away from the comfortable cribs. We’ve featured the Cool Shirt before, an innovative piece of clothing designed to keep race car drivers cool. Kuchofuku has now unveiled its latest air-conditioned clothing, a $206 pair…
