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

  • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    19 hours ago

    I’m more excited about those Frore MEMS airjet chips.

    That’s actually in at least one consumer product right now.

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        It would be a good use case; however, you can only do so much with a cut down version of a SOC that was originally made in 2015. It may be work for very little gains.

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    Doesn’t an ionic air moving system like this put out a big ass EM field?

    Im a fabricator who don’t fuck with the lecky, but maybe someone more educated than me can explain why this doesn’t wipe your memory every time the cooling kicks on

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    2 days ago

    Counterpoint: stop trying to make laptops thinner and implement realistic and functional air cooling

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      6 hours ago

      Well there’s no shortage of those, and they’re unusually cheaper too (unless they’re specced out). I prefer a thin silent one myself, so I welcome this innovation.

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        My laptop and older phone has this and it really does help with the added surface area.

        The only issue is if you go full throttle, the section right above the CPU can fry your hand lol.

        Although I only ever reached that temp doing stupid crap like hashing.

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      Or we innovate 🤷

      It isn’t a given that every device needs a fan anymore. For example non intel MacBook air.

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    Speaking from experience here, and limited information from the company, this looks like a polished version of a high-voltage grid accelerator.

    https://ventiva.com/how-it-works/

    What can be an expected concern is that besides ionizing air and imparting motion to neutral air molecules as the ionized ones rush from one plate to the other, that same effect can and will charge dust particles. That “collector plate” will need to be easily accessible.

    Sound familiar?

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      Appreciate the link. I’ve got a hand-me-down Ionic in my house, and knowing that I can skip running it for basically the same effect means I can save a couple of cents on my electricity bill.

      Gonna take another look at those IKEA tables with the HEPA filters built in. Those seem handy to avoid having to dust so often.

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        Sure thing, glad to be of some kinda help. Ozone can be a good irritant, never mind charged dust sticking to stuff it ordinarily wouldn’t.

        I hope this company has a trick for dust control, but I’m expecting that’d be tougher than figuring out the ionic wind part.

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    Ionic acceleration of air needs high voltages and the air gets ionized (the reason people recommend against vacuuming a PC). I’m surprised that it works at all in close proximity to sensible tech.

    Edit: right, low static pressure, meaning: lower voltages. But still not low.

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    2 days ago

    I have a house filter that functions on the same principal… Lol!

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