Razer’s Prototype Gaming Chair Blasts You With Hot Or Cold Air

It’s becoming a contented for Razer to show disconnected immoderate beautiful chaotic prototypes astatine CES, but nan conception gaming chair pinch integrated heating and cooling it conscionable unveiled really sounds downright practical. Project Arielle is simply a mesh gaming chair that features a bladeless instrumentality strategy that’s designed to support you astatine a comfortable somesthesia sloppy of what business you’re in.

We concisely tried it coming astatine CES 2025 and it’s cool! Or warm, depending connected nan mode you group it to. When my workfellow Sean Hollister tried it, he recovered it didn’t conscionable lukewarm aliases cool his butt, but mildly and softly blew a important magnitude of climate-controlled aerial onto his precocious backmost from mini holes connected nan chair’s apical edge.

Building connected nan $1,049 Razer Fujin Pro mesh gaming chair that you tin presently buy, Project Arielle has 3 adjustable instrumentality speeds that tin trim nan perceived somesthesia by 2 to 5 degrees Celsius (around 3.6 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit) successful “dry environments,” according to Razer. That sounds beautiful useful if you unrecorded successful a basking ambiance aliases if your gaming PC kicks retired tin powerfulness to move your room into a sweatbox.

For chillier environments, nan chair has a built-in PTC heating strategy (the aforesaid benignant recovered successful astir vehicles and heated car seats) that tin spit retired lukewarm aerial astatine 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit). The fans and that temperatures are adjusted utilizing touch expanse controls located adjacent to nan spot pad. And fixed this is simply a Razer product, there’s evidently RGB lighting passim nan chair. By default, it’s group to Razer’s trademark greenish erstwhile it’s off, and we saw nan separator glow reddish erstwhile warm, bluish erstwhile cool, and purple aliases orangish erstwhile cooling aliases warming.

One downside: you can’t rotation 360 degrees successful this chair without wrapping a cord astir yourself, arsenic it does petition to beryllium plugged in. But moreover nan prototype already has a cablegram that’ll safely disconnect if you accidentally springiness it a yank.

Given Project Arielle is only a conception chair, this unluckily isn’t point you tin really bargain conscionable yet. Razer has showcased a batch of quirky gaming gadget concepts astatine CES complete nan years, including chair cushions that shingle your ass pinch haptic feedback.