To compare to CPU cooling, a human is a small CPU in terms of power production. Peltier CPU coolers are not popular because they tend to be less efficient than big air heat exchangers… but… A Peltier CPU cooler is an "instead of" device. A Peltier cooler bolted on to your fanny is an "in addition to" cooling device.
Um actually: only humans & horses use perspiration for cooling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspiration)
But the article is correct. It's not remotely a primary dissipation method for most mammals. Those animals don't need to sweat to stay alive.
So, what I'm hearing here is that in the future, fashions will incorporate massive shoulder pads with fins and spikes, and large metal cat ears to cool the head mounted equipment.
Anime had it right all along!
it might provide a cool feeling on your neck but its going to be purely psychological.
That inefficiency also creates one more problem: assuming they solve the getting-rid-of-hot-air one, this thing will work as an heater for the room in which it works, because some power is always lost into heat, which will turn in less efficiency for the heat pump since it is now working in a hotter environment. And there's power consumption too: peltier devices of decent size draw amperes, not milliamperes, so a pocket sized device like that one, assuming they can change the laws of physics and solve all other problems, won't offer any benefit for more than maybe a couple hours at half power.
My conclusion is that toy is no more than a marketing gimmick that will never work, but (thanks to Sony's name too) as with all non working gimmicks that rely on 1% of correct-but-not-usable-here science and 99% of marketing, it will be cloned and produced in quantities by far east companies to be sold for cheap online, only to be immediately thrown away in some landfill.