The HP Mindframe gaming headset literally cools your ears

Have you ever had a little overheating while playing on PC? I do not mean to get angry at the end Fortnite the loss and throwing a mouse across the room, or shouting obscenities at a teenager appearing at the campsite via Discord. I mean, literally hot. Maybe even hot enough to trigger this terrible condition that many are afraid to mention in the company of politeness – sweaty ears.

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I do not suffer from this particular disease myself, but I guess it must happen, especially after long, intense gaming sessions. That's the reason for being the new Omen by HP Mindframe headset (or, quite simply, Mindframe). For the most part, this is a standard 7.1 surround sound USB gaming headset. But it also adds a unique feature. HP calls this FrostCap technology, but it's a type of thermoelectric cooling that starts to lower the temperature of the headset's earphones as soon as you plug it in.

This concept behind this is not new. The mechanism is sometimes called Peltier cooler and uses an electric current to transfer heat from one side to the other of the surface. You may have seen in the novelty of USB-powered bobbin coolers, which keep a round metal plate the size of a soda can. There, it is not very effective. In this case, it really works.

To test Mindframe, I pulled out my trusty heat gun. The starting temperature of the metal plate inside the atria was about 77 degrees (all temperature readings in Fahrenheit). When I connected the headset to the USB port of a PC, the plate began to cool almost immediately.

I put on the helmet and I sailed a bit in a few games – Shadow of the Tomb Raider and a new crowd – funded science fiction RPG that I like a lot and who calls itself Insomnia: The Ark. I did not feel too cold, but when I glued the earplugs to my head, I could really feel how cold it was. the interior plates became when my ears touched them.

After about 15 minutes, I checked the internal temperature again. This time it was about 66 degrees in most places and even 63 degrees in some places – a significant drop in a short time. By putting my fingers on the inner plate, I found that it was very cold. At the same time, the outside of the headset, directly on the opposite side of the cooling plate, was getting hotter and hotter (hey, the heat has to go somewhere). I've timed the hottest part of the outer surface to 93 degrees.

So yes, the Mindframe really offers significant cooling in the ear.

I'm cool, calm, and enough together not to feel the need to keep my ears or my head sweaty when playing a PC game, but I do not judge who does it. If you need to calm down while you play, your ears can be cold at 10 degrees or more for $ 199, as of today.

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