{"id":12885,"date":"2013-09-16T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=12885"},"modified":"2013-08-22T11:45:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T18:45:39","slug":"ergodyne-chill-its-cooling-towel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/ergodyne-chill-its-cooling-towel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ergodyne Chill-Its Cooling Towel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I take at least two daily showers and have problems with cotton towels getting damp, smelly, and yucky because they can&#8217;t dry quickly enough in the hours between. I recently turned to an item I&#8217;ve had for a year and used for the opposite intended purpose \u2014 the Ergodyne Chill-Its is designed to keep someone cool on a hot day by absorbing a lot of water and evaporating gradually. But, since it&#8217;s moisture-absorbent, it can also be used for the effectively inverse purpose: GET YOU DRY FAST!<\/p>\n<p>Begone, caveman towels! The Chill-Its is made of reputedly NASA-friendly PVA, so consider it a space-age material. It&#8217;s extremely compact (and I do wish for a larger surface version because reaching behind my back can be hard), but you may very well feel amazed when such a small thing (it rolls up into a tight little scroll) gets you pleasantly dry in a couple minutes, and can be thoroughly wrung out for use. It&#8217;s actually a refreshing exercise to squeeze and feel how much water it&#8217;s collected \u2014 and is released.<\/p>\n<p>Another drawback for some may be the Chill-Its&#8217; rubbery surface, although I enjoy experiencing diverse textures, and got used to it fairly quickly. But conversely, a big plus about that: the surface won&#8217;t pick up sand or trap lint\/fuzz as cotton does, so you can take it to the beach without residue.<\/p>\n<p>As for this writing a Chill-Its runs about US$9 \u2014 the same or less than &#8220;the old way of doing things&#8221; \u2014 so thankfully here&#8217;s a case where better tech isn&#8217;t cost-prohibitive. I give it my highest recommendation for making such a regular thing so much more fun.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astonishingly absorbent towel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12887,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12885\/revisions\/12887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}