Intel, Embraco team up on cooling laptop docking station

Sure, there's a number of pre-fabricated (and DIY) laptop cooling options already out there, but apparently, Intel and Embraco saw the need for one more. Granted, the External Chilled Air Docking Station is still in prototype form, but early peeks showed the device packing a minuscule "compressor that cools the air before flowing into the bottom of the laptop" as well as thermal sensors to show the "air temperature before and after the refrigeration process takes place." Reportedly, the docking station could work with a variety of lappies by simply moving the "air ducts and vent holes" around. The cooler could hit store shelves before Christmas if things go as planned, and while we wouldn't jot this down in ink, the price could purportedly hover around $150.

[Via SlashGear]

[Fernando @ Sep 21st 2007 6:46PM]

Embraco! Yeah!

[cmonkey @ Sep 21st 2007 6:57PM]

That's crazy... phase change for laptops! (in the form of a small air conditioner)

[strider_mt2k @ Sep 21st 2007 7:05PM]

That's pretty cool.

[LegitReviews @ Sep 21st 2007 8:29PM]

Thanks for using my pictures without permission and not linking to my article as the original source.

The original article can be read here: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/567/1/

[Kevin @ Sep 21st 2007 9:28PM]

Um, there is the whole "Read" link, just like every article on here. Dumbass.

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Sep 22nd 2007 3:49AM]

@LegitReviews

Engadget always provides a source link via photograph hyperlink. Hover the mouse over the photograph and you should see the URL to your sub-par site appear.

Engadget Akbar!

[FZ1 @ Sep 22nd 2007 2:23PM]

@ I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY

"see the URL to your sub-par site appear."

Get off your soap box. People don't hover images to see their source, they look at the bibliographic (is this word too big for you?) links at the bottom of the article where this information should be. Proper credit should be given when it is due. I guess the site isn't so subpar that other sites (ahem, slashgear) need to use their material and not give acknowledgment to the source and/or ask permission. I might be wrong, but to most responsible, honest people this is called plagiarism.

[Mike @ Sep 21st 2007 9:45PM]

Cool they ripped an idea i had... I used a similar system, with a compressor and some coolant flowing in copper tubing. With that i put a thin sheet of copper and my MacBook Pro sits on it nicely overcloced, and went from 71C down to 38C.

[FZ1 @ Sep 21st 2007 10:11PM]

Nice of Slashgear to borrow pics from Legit Reviews after they published the article days before.

[tekdroid @ Sep 22nd 2007 11:49AM]

Embraco ftw.
I'm looking forward to their manbra (cooled).

[cool @ Sep 22nd 2007 3:11PM]

this would be great for my acer. the thing still overheats with a cooling pad on

[JeffDM @ Sep 22nd 2007 6:46PM]

I'm sorry, but that's the dumbest idea I've seen in a while. Notebooks shouldn't need an air conditioner. I refrain from using the term "laptop" because they aren't designed for that. Anyway, I turned up the fan a bit on my notebook and it cooled down to a comfortable level.

[carlos vega @ Dec 3rd 2007 9:38PM]

i need foud information about compressor but whit this brand is hard to find something