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By Ma. Cristina C. Arayata / Philippines News Agency
As a journalist, I occasionally attend out-of-town seminars that require sharing an air-conditioned hotel room with other colleagues.
One thing I noticed in such a situation is that it’s sometimes hard to decide where the air-conditioner should focus on. If you have it focus on one direction, a colleague would feel very cold. If you focus it on the other direction, another would feel hot.
How about this: at restaurants, have you ever been seated next to an air-conditioning unit? If so, you may have found the meal that arrived at your table already cold, since you’re very near the unit.
There will be no more of that, for Samsung has used cutting-edge technology to come up with a circular air-conditioning unit called the 360 Cassette.
According to the South Korean-headquartered technology giant, the 360 Cassette aims to address clients’ problems, like being directly under or in front of the aircon. Of course, if you’ll have the regular aircon’s blade face the ceiling, it would be like turning it off.
With the 360 Cassette’s circular design, clients can be assured of 360-degree cooling, which means cool air circulating in the room.
It has three main features: perfect even cooling, cold draft-free and stylish design.
The 360 Cassette has an omnidirectional airflow discharge, which eradicates cold draft and increases cooling speed for a premium cooling experience. Its bladeless circular design, meanwhile, allows for even cooling with minimal loss in airflow, setting a new standard for multidirectional Cassette units.
Being bladeless allows the 360 Cassette to deliver a zero-angle airflow, producing a layer of cold air and minimizing flow reduction by 25 percent. Furthermore, with a temperature deviation of less than 0.6-degrees centigrade across an area spanning a diameter of 9.3 meters, the 360 Cassette is said to provide increased power efficiency without producing a cold draft.
During the 360 Cassette’s recent launch, Mark Salvador, Samsung’s head of digital air solutions, said people at Samsung are passionate about making their products evolve to offer the latest technologies to their customers.
The 360 Cassette’s circular air wave controls the temperature of the room by providing an even distribution of air in a full 360-degree angle. Bladeless flow control ensures fast and comfortable cooling without the cold draft by ensuring 100 percent of air volume, compared with the traditional four-way Cassette units, which can lose up to 25 percent of air volume, according to Samsung. It added that the resulting cooling speed is increased by 34 percent.
Additional points go to its sophisticated design, one that could easily blend in any room’s interior.
From what I’ve seen during its launch, Samsung’s 360 Cassette is close to being perfect.