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These Vintage Weather Hat Patents Are Too Chill

So I'm sweating. If only I could dust off some long-forgotten heat-dome gem from the US Patents archive to keep cool and still look crisp as blade.
This man wishes that hat was climate controlled, via Flickr / CC.

So I'm sweating. If you're pretty much anywhere in the eastern half of the United States right now, you're probably a fetid and hot mess too. It's alright. We'll get through this one together. If only I could dust off some long-forgotten heat-dome gem from the US Patents archive to keep cool and still look crisp as blade.

Like this Hot Weather Hat, which pressed a cooling plate (a solar-powered thermoelectric device) to your forehead while a small finned radiator chilled the remaining ambient space.

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Or this Air Conditioned Helmet. The thing used a battery-operated fan to blast air all over your head and face and shoulders.

Then there's this Cooling Unit for a Hat. Look at this thing. Sure, it's kind of the same old story--a motorized fan cooled down your dome--but that a wearable cooling system patented in 1967 was driven by solar cell is pretty chill.

And if you're going for more of an '80s workout vibe, there's the Cooling Hatband. Its matrix of absorbent slots circulate air through the band, which was designed to line "the desired headpiece," but who wants to wear a clunky headpiece when sweating to the latex dreams of Total Body Workout?

Aaaaand still sweating.

@thebanderson