Tim Draper struggled with hot flashes disrupting his life until a London balcony moment inspired him to build wearable cooling devices. MyCelsius applies direct cooling to the wrist, offering instant relief where a French ice cube trick once was the only option.
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I've really suffered with like hidden hot flashes that are ruining my personal life and even professional talking dates being, you know, absolutely obliterated by being liquefied through stress and anxiety. Our mission is to change the way we cool our bodies down and protect our health against heat by developing wearable devices that cool you down when you need it. One night after a couple of pints, may I say, at the pub, I got back home on my balcony in London and I just thought, why don't we just cool our body instead of cooling the whole room? It might take less energy. An advice we're given in France when we're feeling too hot is to apply an ice cube on your wrist here because it's a very thermally sensitive area of the body. So the first thing I did was a Google search to see, you know, are there already 10 ideas like mine out there? And actually, this is not at all something new. And there was not. There was just one company. I've got one with me. Do you want to see it? Yeah. Oh God, that feels better. It's really designed for hot flushes, so that helps me right now. And actually, that helped me calm down. Oh, it— yeah. But I'm always quite happy how this works.