Razer’s heated (and cooled!) gaming chair is hands down the best thing I tried at CES 2025 (2025)

Razer’s heated (and cooled!) gaming chair is hands down the best thing I tried at CES 2025 (1)

While at CES 2025, I had the chance to experience a variety of awesome gadgets – I drove Segway’s new e-motorbike, experienced the first-ever interactive The Last of Us exhibit, saw some impressive AR glasses from brands like Xreal, and even played a stringless guitar. But as I get ready to leave Las Vegas, one device has stuck with me more than the rest: Razer’s Project Arielle concept gaming chair.

At a glance, Project Arielle looks like your normal mesh office chair, complete with a comfortable lumbar-supported design and Razer’s iconic RGB lighting. However, this chair has an extra motor at its base to warm or cool it as desired.

At Razer’s exhibit, I had the chance to experience Arielle first-hand, and while it sounds like it would be one of the most gimmicky launches we saw at CES – and we saw a lot of those it was probably the best thing I saw, and the gadget I’d be most likely to buy from the whole show (if I ever can, more on that below).

Razer’s heated (and cooled!) gaming chair is hands down the best thing I tried at CES 2025 (2)

The functioning demo Arielle was super easy to control. A small touch control panel at the side allows you to adjust the temperature – between a cool 2°C and 30°C (35°F and 86°F) – as well as the intensity of the bladeless fan system. And while the convention wasn’t super quiet, I didn’t notice the chair loudly whirring away at the highest fan power setting.

Besides being an excellent way to find a little cooling in the warm Vegas convention center, I adored that Arielle wasn’t claiming to be anything more than a comfort system. Razer isn’t pitching this as a haptic chair that can mimic the in-game temperature of virtual environments to boost your immersion; instead, Arielle is here to make you feel toasty when you’re at your desk in the cold winter months or help keep you cool in the blistering summer heat – features which sound ideal for my UK-based home office which lacks AC.

Unfortunately, at the time of writing, Razer hasn’t made plans to release Arielle to the public – dashing my dreams, I’ll be able to have one at home. For now, it’s insisting that Arielle is merely a concept at this stage.

That said, as my host acknowledged, Razer’s Frejya haptic cushion was “just a concept” at CES 2024 – under the name Project Esther – before becoming a reality later in the year. I, for one, seriously hope history repeats itself with Arielle.

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I’m seriously considering making a detour via the convention center before flying home to see it again, and I would love to make it a permanent fixture in my home. For now, we’ll have to wait and see what Razer announces.

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Hamish is a Senior Staff Writer for TechRadar and you’ll see his name appearing on articles across nearly every topic on the site from smart home deals to speaker reviews to graphics card news and everything in between. He uses his broad range of knowledge to help explain the latest gadgets and if they’re a must-buy or a fad fueled by hype. Though his specialty is writing about everything going on in the world of virtual reality and augmented reality.

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