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ohgizmo.com - 5/19/2009
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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 , but something called ionic cooling looks like ...
technologyreview.com - 5/19/2009
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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 ...
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A Laptop Cooled with Ionic Wind
gadgets.boingboing.net - 5/19/2009
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Best Served Chilled: Ion Breeze is Notebook Cooler King
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... parts but the kiss of cool air, and the energy required is much lower — as little as half that of a regular fan system. The ion breeze also pulls out around 30% more heat.
The ionic breeze isn’t quite ready to blow into town, though. Problems with the electrodes corroding too quickly have not quite been solved, but Tessera has some competition in the form of a startup named Ventiva, which should hurry things along.
Thermal Management [Tessera via MIT via Oh Gizmo]
Image credit: Tessera
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