Wars over office temperature may be coming to a thaw. Thanks to advances in workplace architecture and new sensor and app technologies, individual workers are getting more control over the climate around them, which has long been a battleground for office workers. Some of the new technologies seem straight out of science fiction. One building under renovation in Italy is going to provide workers with their own "thermal bubbles" that can follow them around the building, so workers will each have their own climate-controlled zone. Elsewhere, smartphone apps such as Comfy let workers order a 10-minute blast of hot or cold air.