How does the QVC product cool touch work?
Monday, March 30th, 2009Justin Bass asked:
QVC sells this product that is basically a cooling pad powered by human heat. You sit on the pad and it starts cooling down. This really doesnt make sense, i have a theory but i dont know if its right. See supposedly you have to keep it at 70 degrees for a little while every week or else it wont work, and also the only info i could find on it was that it cools by turning a crystal into a gel. So im thinking maybe its some kind of endothermic reaction that requires very little heat to start up? And then the crystals break down from the heat and absorb heat, in essence cooling down. And to turn back into crystals, the gel needs to be cooled? I dont know, but the product actually does work, and very well. Please explain someone.
Jorge
QVC sells this product that is basically a cooling pad powered by human heat. You sit on the pad and it starts cooling down. This really doesnt make sense, i have a theory but i dont know if its right. See supposedly you have to keep it at 70 degrees for a little while every week or else it wont work, and also the only info i could find on it was that it cools by turning a crystal into a gel. So im thinking maybe its some kind of endothermic reaction that requires very little heat to start up? And then the crystals break down from the heat and absorb heat, in essence cooling down. And to turn back into crystals, the gel needs to be cooled? I dont know, but the product actually does work, and very well. Please explain someone.
Jorge















