Global warming is seemingly turning the world into a great big ball of blistering sunshine, leading to our lives, for those who take the term very literally, to become one never ending episode of Baywatch. When you’re really getting sick of how long the sun wants to wear his ever-present hat on those longer and hotter summer days, you may want to step inside and bask in the glory of some effortlessly cooled, delightfully conditioned air. As such, air con will remain a growing fixture in our lives for the time being.
Demands are changing though. We’re getting a little sick of those big boxes hanging off our buildings like a mishapen raised mole, not to mention the white vents in our homes wrecking with the hard-earned feng shui. You can’t forget either that we’re supposed to treat the environment like a cat lady tends for her felines, rather than the way a matador taunts his bull. The future of air conditioners, therefore, looks to have an emphasis on stealthy sustainability, rather than power-hungry obnoxiousness.
This Air Conditioner Is Sure To Create A Buzz
These here contraptions are supposed to resemble bee hives in their design and, instead of creating deliciously sweet nectar, they do the old hot air/cold air switcheroo without necessitating any kind of earth-killing fossil fuels. The device sucks up the atmosphere through the top and then through its complex guts spits it out cooler by evaporating moisture in the warm air. What’s more, the bee hive can be printed entirely using the impossible to comprehend principles of 3D printer technology. I’m sure it just involves working up a team of angry bees into an air conditioner building fury, or something to that effect.
Cover Up Your Decency
If you can’t afford to invest in a new fangled, futuristic air conditioner, then there’s one way of dealing with the unsightly lump you have protruding from your building: a hanging basket of dangly red flowers. Just suspend one of these lovely bouquets over your piece of kit, and you can treat it with the same shame that certain starring characters treat their genitals in the Book of Genesis.
2012: An Air Conditioning Odyssey
I really can’t see this piece of air condition/furniture catching on. It looks like an oversized, eye sore of a shelf from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I mean, look at the size of it! Who on Earth would want this in their home? I bet you can’t even sit on it without detaching it from the wall, and someone will obviously sit on something as bench-like as that, so it will be broken in a couple of weeks anyway. Whoever made it may be trying to generate some appeal with the delicately placed foliage and tea pot, but we all know the old adage: you can’t polish a turd. All I’m left with is an insatiable urge for a mug of chai and to do the gardening.
Use The Sun To Keep You Cool
Using heat to cool things down you say? Sounds curiously nonsensical to me, but apparently some nerdy poindexter has managed to event a solar-powered air conditioner. The device, which resembles one of those fold-up templates you give kids to build their first paper cube, feeds thermal electrical energy from that big orange glowing ball in to the sky to lovely clean, green, cool air in your house. It makes a lot of sense too, as when there’s no sun shining, there’s not much point in having an air conditioner. Clever little scientist.