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Summermodo: Three Ways To Chill Your Beer Fast

9:15AM February 5, 2012 | Brent Rose

It’s Saturday afternoon, you’ve made it through the long week and it’s time for Happy Hour, Gizmodo’s weekly booze column. A cocktail shaker full of innovation, science, and alcohol. More »

Gadgets

Buy This Router Cooler Because Your Router Might Be On Fire

9:20AM April 26, 2011 | Sam Biddle

HAVE YOU CHECKED YOUR ROUTER? IS IT ON FIRE? ARE YOU SURE? CHECK IT AGAIN. ARE YOU SURE IT’S STILL NOT ON FIRE? CHECK AGAIN. Actually, just buy Dr Cool, a dedicated router cooler that solves a problem nobody has. More »

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Server Porn: Inside Facebook’s Gleaming Green Data Center

12:00AM April 10, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Facebook recently took the wraps off its shiny new data centre in Prineville, Oregon and—courtesy the Open Compute Project—we’ve learned the whole massive thing sounds lean, mean and relatively green. More »

Cameras

Nikon Considering Cooling Fans Inside Cameras

2:20AM February 19, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Well, this could certainly be annoying! To combat overheating sensors, Nikon may place a tiny cooling fan inside upcoming mirrorless cameras, according to a recent patent filing. More »

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Panasonic Shows Off ‘Eco-Friendly’ Technology By Flying Snow 8,500km To Bahrain

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2:15PM January 19, 2011 | Nick Broughall

What’s the best way to showcase eco-friendly compresser-less heat insulation technology? Flying a snowman over 8,500km from Japan to Bahrain may not be it. More »

Computing

Winter-Cooled PCs: The Latest In Overclocking Technology

4:40PM January 12, 2011 | Adrian Covert

If I ever had to choose a way to cool an overclocked gaming PC, I’d go with this winter air method over liquid cooling every time. Not just because it’s audacious, but also because I enjoy looking like white trash. More »

NVIDIA Teases Cooler, Quieter Beast Of A GPU

6:00AM November 8, 2010 | Jack Loftus

NVIDIA, unsurprisingly, is billing its next big GPU as the fastest, quietest and coolest yet. More »

Science

Researchers Develop Incredibly Efficient Air Conditioning Tech

7:00AM June 21, 2010 | Jack Loftus

My current apartment lacks air conditioning of any kind. Good for the environment and the utility bill, but bad for me and my restless sleep. News today of some crazy 90% more efficient AC has made me feel worse. More »

Apple Patents Using USB Ports As Air Vents For Cooling

9:05AM March 5, 2010 | Jason Chen

AppleInsider found four cooling-related patents by Apple that might be used in future MacBooks in order to better keep temperatures from getting absurd as performance increases. The most interesting is the one that uses USB/Firewire ports as vents. More »

Little Ionic Winds Stop Laptops From Burning Body Parts

12:00PM May 20, 2009 | Andi Wang

We first heard about ionic winds cooling down computers by 250% in 2007. Two years later, Tessera—a chip-packing company—has modified the technology so that it would fit into a working laptop.

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