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Liquid-cooling
for
heated smartphones
Are
you worried about the classic hot smartphone problem?
Or
into overclocking your pocket PC?
If you are, you'll be thrilled about Fujitsu's new technology for a
liquid-cooled
smartphone. It's a bit like putting your car's radiator
into your phone -a cool idea even if you
probably wouldn't need it.
Fujitsu's
new `loop heat pip e' transfer system would attach
to
a smartphone or tablet's CPU. The rig is less than one millimetre
thick
but would stil l be able to pump a liquid coolant through
y
o u r p h o n e 's guts to dissipate heat. T he company explains the
tech
as follows: “A working fluid is encapsulated inside this closed
loop
as a coolant. The heat from the heat source evaporates the coolant,
and
the energy that goes into evaporating the coolant is taken away
from
the heat source, lowering its temperature. It is based off of the
same
principle used when sprinkling water on pavement to reduce heat.“
In
theory this is supposed to improve your phone's performance without
any
additional drain on the battery power. The thing is smartphones already
perform
well without overheating too bad, unless you are performing
Virtual
Reality applications. And the chips that r un t hem are only
getting
more efficient as time goes on.
The
hypothetical idea that you're gonna need hulking hot processors
to
keep texting our friends isn't too convincing. But if you do someday
need
to cool off phones the same way you cool off high-end gaming PCs,
it's
good to know there are options out there.
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gizmodo.in
ETP26MAR15
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