Solid state.... fan!

polobunny · March 28th, 2008

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Engineers at Thorrn Micro Technologies have created a solid state fan for portable gadgets that is one-fourth the size and two to three times more powerful than a comparable mechanical fan. The RSD5 fan, which is roughly the size of a microchip, is said to be extremely thin, silent, and powerful and current prototypes can effectively cool a 25-watt processor.

Finally someone to put this to use. I remember when someone took an ionic air purifier to cool their computer, I was tempted to do the same. Replace the hard drives with solid state drives, and you get a completely silent computer. Wouldn't that be awesome?

Video: RSD5 Solid State Fan In Action

Tech Geek Deluxe · March 28th, 2008

Kewl!

Badluck Inc · March 29th, 2008

Interesting

**drew and not u** · March 29th, 2008

That's awesome!

**Reloadron** · March 29th, 2008

Pretty interesting material. I liked the demo clip. The little sucker actually moves some air. I Googled the hell out of it and can't find anything else this company has or is developing.

I am also curious as to how it is powered and how much actual power is needed to get it to be effective.

Ron

screwballl · March 29th, 2008

This is based on the same setup as the "Ionic breeze" and similar "fanless air movers".... they just shrunk it to a small scale for use in electronics

Lead Head · March 29th, 2008

Ozone and high voltage near my electronics? I don't think so.

Dread · March 29th, 2008

Be great on some of my NB chips.

polobunny · March 29th, 2008

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Originally Posted by screwballl

This is based on the same setup as the "Ionic breeze" and similar "fanless air movers".... they just shrunk it to a small scale for use in electronics

Yup, which is great.

And Lead Head
Inventgeek.com - 0dBA Ionic Cooling Gaming System - Overview

screwballl · March 29th, 2008

I saw that some years back polo... but is still very cool!! I bet someone could update the system to a newer SSD hard drive and a E8400....

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Reloadron Helper Person In General Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 1,453	Re: Solid state.... fan! Pretty interesting material. I liked the demo clip. The little sucker actually moves some air. I Googled the hell out of it and can't find anything else this company has or is developing. I am also curious as to how it is powered and how much actual power is needed to get it to be effective. Ron

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screwballl Colonel Calamity Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sandy South Posts: 6,279 Blog Entries: 6	Re: Solid state.... fan! This is based on the same setup as the "Ionic breeze" and similar "fanless air movers".... they just shrunk it to a small scale for use in electronics Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members.

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screwballl Colonel Calamity Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sandy South Posts: 6,279 Blog Entries: 6	Re: Solid state.... fan! I saw that some years back polo... but is still very cool!! I bet someone could update the system to a newer SSD hard drive and a E8400.... Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members.

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