In my 20-odd years of PC building and DIY electronics hackery, I have attached refrigeration units to many things: overclocked CPUs, of course, the underside of a mousepad during a particularly hot ...

Nextreme, Inc., an new startup out of North Carolina, has announced a new cooling device for chips that gives me an excuse to write an Ars story that contains two words that I haven't used together on ...

When taking pictures of the night sky, any noise picked up by the sensor can obscure the desired result. One major cause of noise in CMOS sensors is heat—even small amounts can degrade the final image ...

Laird Thermal Systems rolled out a new series of Peltier cooler modules that can provide active spot cooling for smart digital light processing (DLP) automotive headlights, and other sensitive ...

In classic Computex style Cooler Master is showing off a thermoelectric CPU cooler design concept on its stand, but it's one that's practically finished and will be on the shelves by the end of the ...

Digital light processing (DLP) technology is now used in many smart automotive headlight systems to cast sharper and brighter light in front of a vehicle. These automotive headlight systems operate in ...

MACS MA-8200 TEC VGA cooler - Retail Peltier cooling on a VGA card. A little while ago a marketing contact of Guru3D was trying to convince me that TEC cooling, or what we all know as Peltier cooling ...

Watch this video on YouTube. “In this video, we try to cool the Steam deck with Science using a Thermoelectric cooler also known as a Peltier Cooler or even Semiconductor cooler. This uses electricity ...

The Peltier chip (TEC chip) is a thermo-element that utilizes the Peltier effect to implement a heat pump. It has two plates — one cold and the other hot. Between the plates, there are several ...

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Pain is a good thing. It tell us to pull our hand away from the stove and to stay off a turned ankle. But we all have different experiences of pain, and chronic pain degrades our quality of life. A ...