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gadgets.boingboing.net - 5/19/2009

Ionic-Cooling Laptop

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What if every time your laptop hit 100

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technologyreview.com - 5/19/2009

A Laptop Cooled with Ionic Wind

— technologyreview.com — Anyone who uses a laptop will be familiar with the whir that the fan makes as it... kicks in when the processor's temperature reaches around 100 °F. As laptops and other electronics have gotten smaller and thinner, researchers have begun searching for ... (more) A Laptop Cooled with Ionic Wind

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ohgizmo.com - 5/19/2009

Ionic Laptop Cooling Is Silent, Efficient, Works 30% Better Than Fans

— ohgizmo.com — By Evan Ackerman The faster a laptop is, the hotter it tends to be, making it noisy... and sucking down power running fans and (eventually) rendering you sterile. We’ve heard about some promising new cooling technologies like steam cooling , ... (more) Ionic Laptop Cooling Is Silent, Efficient, Works 30% ...

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electronista.com - 5/21/2009

Ionic wind may soon be used to cool notebooks

— electronista.com — In the quest to make notebook computers lighter and quieter, researchers are developing new ways of cooling... the microprocessors that power these devices. San Jose, CA-based chip-packaging company Tessera has recently demonstrated a new ionic-cooling ... (more) Ionic wind may soon be used to cool notebooks

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Little Ionic Winds Stop Laptops From Burning Body Parts [Cooling]
Gizmodo — ... and passing it over a processor chip, the ionized air increased airflow on the surface, thus creating a cooling breeze over a hot microprocessor (as illustrated above). Apparently, Tessera's cooling system not only consumes half as much power as other conventional laptop fans, but also can eliminate up to 30% more heat as well. It's pretty much the same technology from a couple years ago, yet reduced in size to fit your personal, portable needs. [Technology Review via BBG] ...

Silent, low-power ionic cooling for laptops -- Boing Boing Gadgets
Boing Boing — ... nitrogen, and another that acts as a receiver for those molecules. When a voltage is applied between the two electrodes, the ions flow from the emitter electrode to the collector. As they move, their momentum pushes neutral air molecules across a hot spot, cooling it down... The system can extract roughly 30 percent more heat from a laptop than a conventional fan can, and lab tests show that it could potentially consume only half as much power, the company says... Ionic-Cooling Laptop Discuss this on Boing Boing Gadgets

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