Hello and welcome to the show!
My name is Alex and this is TechFlow!
I've got a really exciting video for us, guys, today!
Really exciting!
Well, I'm going to find it exciting so hopefully you guys should to.
It's actually really interesting but it's only an interesting video if you understand
a bit of background about fans and air-conditioning.
So let me go into it in a little more detail...
So what I have sat here on the desk is nothing more, or should I say nothing less, than a portable
air-conditioning unit.
And to a lot of you, that might not sound like a big deal but let me tell you this:
Usually with an air-conditioning unit you have to have a box mounted on the outside
of your house or office and you have to have a big box on the wall and that is how air-conditioning
works; it takes air from outside, cools it down and pushes it inside, right.
It's a big set up and air-conditioning units need maintenance all the time, like all the
time; I used to have one!
Now this, on the other hand, is the "Evapolar."
It looks really, really, really cool and as soon as I heard about it, I thought, I need
to get one of these things.
At home, I have a very, very, very big Dyson Airblade - the biggest waste of money I have
ever spent.
It comes with a little, dinky, tiny little plastic remote that's meant to look like it's metal
but it's not, it has a really shoddy LCD display on it which only displays a number from 1-10
which represents how fast it is pushing air out of itself.
And not only that but this thing is absolutely massive!
And all it does is push air - it takes air in and pushes it back out again; it doesn't
make it cooler, it doesn't make it warmer; that's all it does and it's ridiculously priced.
This, if it does what it says it's going to do, is going to make your air cooler - it's
going to cool it down.
"Our primary mission was to develop a device that is both user and environmentally friendly."
Put it this way - I have seen a lot of technology in my life and this is impressive.
Straight off the bat, it looks like it's powered by USB - we have a USB charger there and a
USB to Micro USB cable just there which is quite disconcerting - it's obviously not going
to be very powerful but we'll see; we'll let the product do the talking.
And here is the unit itself - very, very, very lightweight.
More silica gel.
OK - one of the only times I think I am ever going to have to use a quick start guide in
my life and that dial on the top looks really cool.
Wait, is that a... oh yeah!
Right, let me go and fill this up with some water and I'll be back in a second.
Right, so we're about three quarters full now and I'm going to slip this unit back on
to the side of the Evapolar, full of water.
There we go!
Look at that!
I just find stuff like this really interesting, like this is really, really, really interesting
tech. to me.
It's cold!
And look at that!
The tank lights up on the side.
No way!
It has a little dial at the top which is telling me what the temperature of the room is right
now and what the temperature of the air it's pushing out is.
OK - how it's doing this; I have no clue - come and take a look at this. OK, we're going handheld
with this one - this is the unit on the top and you can twist that so, as you can see,
the temperature of this room is 21°C and we're pumping out 18.1°C air.
Look at that!
OK guys - this is cool!
I've put a link to Evapolar in the description but for now I can confirm that this works
and it's kind of blowing my mind.
My name's been Alex, you guys have been awesome, this has been TechFlow and we'll catch you
in the next one!