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Title: Liquid cooling coming to the next iPhone? Post by: HCK on June 18, 2013, 03:01:37 pm Liquid cooling coming to the next iPhone?
Back in May of this year, NEC unveils the “world’s first” liquid cooled smartphone. Forget about pumps and radiators, this is a smartphone we’re talking about after all; it uses heat pipe technology. The principle is really simple to understand. Fill a metal tube up with a liquid, usually a mix of water and ethanol. Attach one end of it to something hot, like a CPU, and the other end to something cool. When the CPU gets hot, the warm liquid travels towards the cool element thanks to entropy, and then the cool liquid comes to do its job. Continue reading → http://feeds.iphonehacks.com/~r/iphonehacks/~3/wjCUtQLTi4w/liquid-cooling-iphone.html |