Summer just keeps on getting hotter and hotter each year and it’s the peak of the Airsoft year. This means that we have to ensure to keep ourselves cool to keep and avoid heat stroke.  With all the gear we’ll be wearing how can we keep ourselves cool during the hottest season of the year?

There is one option, getting the Qore Performance IcePlate that is available at some airsoft retailers. Designed like ballistic plate, it is a cooling plate as well as a hydration system. It can be fitted in plate carriers but its temperature is not adjustable and it can only cool certain parts of the body.

What if you can wear your own Airconditioner? Sounds preposterous? Well, there is the InstaCool Vest which its maker says is an outdoor cooling vest that cools you down in 10 seconds.

On Indiegogo right now to raise funds for its production, InstantCool vest is a wearable AC unit to cool you with ice water circulated from the reservoir via a high-efficiency battery powered pump. Just like the IcePlate, it can also be used as a hydration system.

Since it has a water pump, InstaCool is able to circulate water around the different parts of your body core including the chest and back area. It has one touch button for temperature control; can keep you cool for 4 hours with its Powerbank; and the Vest itself is washable as long as you remove the water pump, powerbank, USB port, and the icebox.

Since it’s a vest, InstaCool can be worn almost anywhere as compared to the IcePlate which of course will make you look out of place on the high street or anyplace outside an airsoft field or a training range.

On Indiegogo, you can pledge US$139 to get an InstaCool vest which is 30% cheaper than its planned retail price when it get produced. Consult the sizing chart as the production is to be done in China as the CEO of InstaCool, Eddy Yue is based in Shenzhen and Asian sizing is different.

If production is on schedule, the InstaCool vest will soon be shipping to its backers in June 2018, just in time for summer. Will you be one the first to wear it at an airsoft game?