Firm cools computer with corona discharge
Found on The Inquirer on Thursday, 04 January 2007
A firm has developed technology which can cool computer chips with an Ionic wind.
Kronos uses an ionic wind pump to create a corona discharge which draws air across the chip.
With a bit of cash from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington and Intel, it created several working prototypes of a corona discharge CPU cooler, which can silently but effectively cool a modern CPU.
Corona-based coolers have no moving parts and are more reliable. They could cool down the most demanding processors without making a sound. They also do not need much power to do the job either, Kronos claims.
The business idea is simple: read a how-to article over at Inventgeek about ionic cooling and sell it as your idea a few month later. They probably found it on Slashdot.