MacBook Pro in the background FTW!

Very cool! That thing really does move alot of air...

That guy is kind of a dork.

This video looks like it was filmed the same way as all of the 80s educational videos.

Nice. (Except for the MPP in the background. HA! J/K.....but not really)

This seems like an Idea that could open up whole new avenues in lap top and desk top design alike. Manufacturers could actually push the current limits without capping or limiting their own designs because of cooling/space limitations. I was truly amazed and the overall amount of air being pushed out of design with no moving parts. Very Sharper Image-esk. Oh Ionic breeze, how we miss you.

Warning, volume spike at 1:06.

Doesn't this create ozone?

Anyone else hear the high pitched ringing with the audio in that video?

So if this works like those ionic breeze air purifiers, then what about all the concerns that people have expressed about them? Such as they produce ozone that is bad for health. I know all electronics produce ozone, but I thought these types produce the most.

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Same thing.

What no seems to mention is that this should be able to be in a custom form factor and not be confined to just a square device over some other device, but maybe one long rectangle on the side where the air is brought in already. Possibly able to be made into other shapes with only the path being the limiting factor.

Can I sew a couple of those to the seat of my pants. I like tacos.

good - maybe the ozone it produces wil counter CFC's...

@GoatMonkey: Your just jealous of his hair

This sounds superb. I'll wait for the first few versions to explode and then I'll adopt.

It looks promising for laptops but how much power does it consume? IIRC, those Ionic Breeze things used alot of power.

@kahri: HAHA!!

@TerryinSt.Paul: I was wondering the same thing. He addressed cost (about the same as conventional fans) but didn't mention how much juice it sucks up.

No ozone concerns?
I really wouldn't want a room filled with these.

I can never be around any of those "Ionic Breeze" machine because they give me headaches.

also ... what happens when joe user's computer fills up with dust? I try to be good about it but even my machines usually have enough dust in them to gunk up that thing and ground out the corona wires. I'd hate to see what happens when these things short out.

is helmet hair a side effect of this fan? and i guess its similar to the sharper image ion air cleaner

I wonder is chip manufacturers would start designing this tech right into the chip. Of course there is the energy consumption concern which hasn't been discussed in the article, as pointed out above.

Piezo cooling is nothing new but that is for sure more air than I thought would be moved. It doesnt move any more air than a fan though- only if you ASSUME its more reliable does it have an advantage over a fan. I will say right off the bat it is going to consume more power and will generate more heat coming from power supply. You may end up with hotter internals than using a fan and be forced to use a brick to decipate extra heat.

lol, he said "CPU's and processors"...

If they iron out those ozone concerns people have, this is really fantastic. How much do y'all reckon it'll cost once released?

How am I supposed to sleep at night without the hum of CPU fans? I just seems pointless to buy another fan just for noise purposes.

Sweet. I bet when consumers can first buy these, or at least dissemble their new laptop, that someone will mod this thing into a fan watch.

@dantaylor08: Here's an idea... lets get a few hundred thousand of these, and set up to run on solar power out inthe middle of the Sahara, or some desolate spot of ocean, andlet them try to blast a little ozone to fill in all thelittle holes. Green ozone repair? Pure air ftw?

damn I wish they were publicly traded...I looked for a stock symbol to no avail. time to invest

I need some of these in my xbox 360, stat!

These devices require far less energy when compared to their mechanical fan counter-parts.

Seinfeld anyone?

I think he used it to blow-dry his hair.
Very cool, though - is it a publicly traded company?

@TheSonOfKrypton: it looks more like a white macbook because of the fairly thick screen bezel. also WORST. HAIRCUT. EVER.

@jkr: building it into chips is the ultimate goal of the company. also, the fan is said to consume very little power.

We R Dan Schlitz and Vishal Singhal's oysters. When does the jet engine version come out?

@Adrian Covert: well if the chip manufacturer is intel, then this company would be left out in the cold (which is what I meant). As in building it into the cpu. ANyways, guys, asfar as dust, would a periodic polarity change, repel the collected dust? I know those air purifiers don't do that, because they want to collect the dust.

@TerryinSt.Paul: The Ionic Breeze used very little power (10W), it was part of their big selling point, as useless as they ended up being.

You just know someone is going to make a headband out of these things. Geeky runners rejoyce!

Ozone decomposes rubber. I have rubber grommets throughout my case. The reduction in fan noise would be made up in hard drive vibration.

@TheSonOfKrypton: I can't believable, this guy. Has nothing to do with the post. Great post, i love seeing new hardware like this to help propel us just that much further in technology great stuff guys.

I wonder if they could be combined with arrays of Peltier Junctions (albeit they are current hungry bastards) to form solid-state heating/cooling solutions for say, smaller automated platforms where equipment (but not necessarily people) would require temperature regulation.
Or maybe as part of some kind of a heat exchange system where ozone contaminated air could be kept in some kind of a closed system or at least a system where any nasty stuff could be "handled".

What?

Frickin' sweet. I want one!

Well from the experiences I have had with the ion fans, they generate alot of static in the air, not good for computers, with several models of these fans and air purifiers the results are lots of little shocks I moved them all way out of my computer areas

@TheSonOfKrypton: I can also spot a lot of icons in the doc and it seems to be Tiger (or lower) because the dock is white. Just generalizing here. And a lot of apps open too.

And I really think this is a breakthrough and I want this! No more loud fan noises in desktops.

Isn't RSD5 the one with the bad motivator?

@dantaylor08 and squeakytoy: Ozone up in the stratosphere = good, ozone down here where people can inhale it = bad. It's pretty damn poisonous - strong oxidizer (3 oxygen atoms in an unstable configuration).

Does this mean we can have super-thin window fans?
Super-thin window air conditioning units?
Hats with built-in cooling?
Relief for Disneyworld mascots during summer?

Will further development result in hoverboards? Well, I can dream can't I?

This thing really blows! (somebody had to say it)

so, if they figure out how to keep the static electricity down to a minimum, and develop a solid state ozone filter, this may be in some Zalman case in 2010. Cool.

Shoooot and get rid of this??

No thanks!

Just what I need, more hazardous, Ozone creating crap. I can't wait to get migraines just by using my PDA too much.

@ideaman2020: Seriously.

What about that blue one?

@GoatMonkey: People with great ideas usually are.

@bestpersonintheunivers: That's what I was thinking hahah

If can make a ultra thin, non moving fan why can't they fix the damn audio in their video?