Omen’s Mindframe headset harnesses the Peltier effect to cool sweaty gamers

HP Omen reckons it has a solution to stuffy gaming headsets: the Omen Mindframe gaming headset. An audio peripheral unlike most others. While the usual approach is to passively cool your ears with special fabrics and materials, there’s only so far that approach will get you 10 hours into a game of Cultist Simulator. The HP Omen Mindframe headset is designed to actively cools your ears instead. Yeah, you heard me, active ear-cooling. Omen has expanded its range in the past few months, and the gaming company, which usually sticks to prebuilt PCs, has now branched out into gaming peripherals. One of the most stand out of which has to be the Omen Mindframe gaming headset. With a breathable material on top and active, yet silent, cooling inside, it aims to rid gamers of uncomfortable ear lobes and sweaty chops once and for all. We just gave the headset a whirl over at Gamescom, and I’m pleased to report I didn’t lose my ear to a tragic headset fan accident during the hands-on. “Initially, we plan to put a fan inside,” Kristian Sandor, EMEA gaming product manager, says. “But if you think of the gamer, when they play there will be a buzz noise there. So no, there is no fan inside.”