Ionic Winds Chilling Your Computer

Iddo Genuth writes to mention The Future of Things online magazine is reporting that Kronos Advanced Technologies in cooperation with Intel and the University of Washington claims to have developed a new type of ultra-thin, silent cooling technology for processors. The piece covers many of the cooling technologies currently available, how their new corona discharge cooler works, and a short interview with several of the key team members.

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This is a dumb idea

[Bryansix]

The idea in the article doesn't seem to have much merit. However it gave me another idea. Buy one of these things and firmy attach it to the heat sink of the chip in question and it should work fine. In theory at least.

Mod parent up

[Aenoxi]

A shot of reality-salt to take with the TFA. Why is it I only ever get mod points when the only comments around involve imagining a beowulf cluster of Soviet Russia overlords making frist posts in all of your base? Oh wait, this is Slashdot...