Sony Reon Pocket 5 Personal Air Conditioner
Turn yourself into a walking, talking A/C this summer
For visitors to Japan in the second half of the last century, a major attraction was the cornucopia of exciting electronic gadgets by brands with unfamiliar, exotic names.
The first were tiny transistor radios—a wonder because they were portable. This writer’s father bought two in 1960 by a maker with the curious name of Sony, although he pronounced it “Sonny,” with a slight edge of amused contempt—it had been only 15 years since World War II.
