New Tech at CES: Razer’s Heating and Cooling Gaming Chair
This year’s CES event is nearly at an end, and we’ve heard lots of weird and wonderful tech announcements come out of it. But among the battery toasters and tea-cooling cat robots, there’s new tech that looks useable, effective, and promises to solve real life problems.
The Problem: Uncomfortable Gaming Sessions
Razer’s heating and cooling gaming chair, named Project Arielle, is such a proposition. The ‘problem’ is that gamers can get uncomfortably hot while gaming for hours on end. Through a wider lens, all office workers can feel too warm or too cold during the year. Well this chair offers easy temperature regulation to its users, using some very impressive looking tech. If it delivers on ergonomics (which, based on the press images, it will), it just might be the newest addition to my list of the best office chairs for back pain.
The Tech Behind the Chair
The Arielle chair has a fan at the base of it, which pumps cooled or warmed air through the frame of the upper chair and the seat. It’s a simple idea that – by the look of the souped-up press images – is expertly done.
A Stylish and Familiar Design
What’s more, and just as important to me, is that the chair itself looks great! I hear ‘gaming chair’, and I prepare myself for the inevitable racing car-designed foundation with LED light flourishes. Well, project Arielle looks stylish and cool… and also familiar. That’s because Razer have simply added its new temp tech onto their existing mesh gaming chair, the Razer Fujin Pro chair. I haven’t tested the Razer Fujin Pro chair yet, but looking at reviews, it’s highly regarded.
Conclusion
In short: I’m excited to test and review Project Arielle… preferably in the depths of our next sweltering summer!
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Is the chair available for purchase?
A: Not yet. Although a prototype, and currently with no official on sale date, you can request updates on the product from Razer’s dedicated page.
Q: How does the temperature regulation work?
A: The chair has a fan at the base of it, which pumps cooled or warmed air through the frame of the upper chair and the seat.
Q: Are there other chairs like this on the market?
A: Yes, there are already chairs out there – X-Chair’s chairs for example – that offer heating, cooling and massage features (though admittedly, through more basic means).
