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Your hands,
perfected.

The first gaming controller with dual-zone heating and cooling built right into the grips. Dry palms, warm hands, total focus — held precisely, session after session.

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ThermaPlay controller, three-quarter view, with blue and red illuminated thumbsticks and a dual-temperature OLED display

Dual-Zone Temp Control

Heat one grip, cool the other

Closed-Loop Precision

Holds your target, no drift

Pro Paddles & USB-C

Wired V1, zero latency

What it does

Temperature you can feel,
tuned to the millisecond.

Every ThermaPlay grip houses a solid-state thermoelectric module. Reverse the current, and the same module that cools your hand can warm it.

01 · Dual zone

Two grips. Two temperatures. Total control.

Run the left grip cool and the right grip warm, or set them both the same. Each zone has its own module and its own control loop, because your hands aren't identical and your game isn't either.

  • Independent left and right zones
  • Adjust on the fly from the on-grip display
ThermaPlay controller with RGB accents and an OLED readout showing temperature inside a glowing ring

02 · Closed loop

Set a temperature. It holds it.

Thermistors in each grip feed a PID control loop that corrects hundreds of times per second. You pick a target; ThermaPlay keeps it there through a three-hour session — no warm-up, no thermal drift, no surprises.

  • Stable cold-side temperature, sustained
  • Direct-contact cooling, not a fan

03 · Built to hold

Grips engineered around your hands.

Textured, contoured grips put the thermal surface exactly where your palms rest. Customizable rear paddles and a clean wired USB-C connection round out a controller that's premium in the hand before you even power it on.

  • Customizable pro paddles
  • Wired USB-C — no battery anxiety

How it works

Drag it. Feel the idea.

This is the real control behavior. Choose any temperature from a refrigerator-cool 50°F to a hand-warmer 110°F — ThermaPlay drives to it and holds.

Grip temp — live demoBoth grips
72°F Neutral
50° Cold72° Neutral110° Warm

Set a target, it stays there. No drift across a full session.

Key specifications

The numbers behind the comfort.

Measured on the working prototype. Final production figures may improve as the flexible-TEC build matures.

66°F
Cold-side grip temp, sustained
113°F
Max comfortable heat output
<30s
Neutral to target temperature
USB-C
Wired V1 connection
ThermaPlay retail box with the controller, blue ice on one side and orange flame on the other, reading Heat Cool Control

Retail ready

Heat. Cool. Control.

Packaging that says exactly what the product does. Dual-zone temperature control, pro paddles, and USB-C — all on the front of the box, no jargon required.

ThermaPlay controller floating in a sci-fi space station with grips glowing red and blue

The roadmap

Prove the core. Then go further.

V1 nails the thermal experience in a wired controller. From there: wireless and AI-tuned temperature in V2, then RGB, Hall-effect inputs, and modular paddles in V3 and beyond.

  • V1 — Wired thermal core, OLED, pro paddles
  • V2 — Wireless & AI Sync
  • V3+ — RGB, Hall-effect, modular, multi-platform

Why we built this

Controllers got smarter.
Your hands got ignored.

Modern controllers have haptics, adaptive triggers, and gyro aiming — and after twenty-five years, still no answer for the most basic comfort problem in gaming: the temperature of your own hands.

Sweaty palms cost ranked matches. Cold fingers slow reaction times in winter. Players have improvised with grip tape, gloves, and fans for decades. We thought the hardware should just solve it.

ThermaPlay started as a working prototype — thermoelectric modules, thermistor PID control, real thermal data between 19°C and 45°C — built and tested before a single marketing word was written. This is engineering first, hype second.

2
Independent thermal zones
1
Working prototype, already built

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