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Fan-less cooling solution for laptops up to 40W launched (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 3 days ago by avieshek@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Device uses movement of ions to generate airflow without any moving parts like in iPads and MacBook Air.

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[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The difference between a vacuum and this fanless cooling device is that a vacuum happens to generate a small amount of static, and usually has grounding wires in the hose to prevent it shocking things, while this fanless device is intentionally ionizing as much air as possible to get it to move.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Exactly, that's why i'm wondering how it is save.