couple of products
 

http://www.coollaboratory.com/
... new thermal paste ?

http://www.ainex.jp/list/fan/cft-85.htm
... and some goofy fan (imo).

The new thermal paste looks like it has mercury in it. Yum. There's a great product to give to a standard citizen.

The goofy fan is ... what the heck? Dang thing looks like Rube Goldberg rose from the dead! :D My guess is that it is intended to raise the pressure that the fan can develop, but it also looks like it'd be noisy.

Too bad I can't read either language very well.

http://www.ainex.jp/list/fan/cft-85.htm
... and some goofy fan (imo).[/quote]

Hmmmmm. It looks like the goofy fan is built to better focus the airstream - I note the contra-rotation and suspect the inner fan may be rotating faster. There may be method to their madness.

It's not mercury (forbidden product for us), it's just made of Gallium and Indium , exactly the same as the Sapphire "metalcooling" for their videocards...

Is that a contrarotating fan? I remember reading about them ages ago and wishing someone would try applying it to PC sized fans. It'll be interesting to see if theres any gains over standard axial.

The new thermal paste melts aluminum and only works with copper and other nonreactives. But hey at least it seems to work great. I'm going to try it with heatspreaders ripped off. Procooling should do a review on this. Those liquid-metal filled syringes look appetizing... inject it into the next person who pisses you off.

As I understand it you can picture the airflow from a fan like so:
Picture a ceiling fan,blowing down, above a spiral staircase.
The staircase is the path the air molecules actually follow.

The contra rotating fans straighten out the airflow so that, in the above example, the air blows straight down.
In an aircraft it helps a lot to have the thrust going strait back.

I suppose this will help in ducted fan situations: (shorter path = less resistance = higher flow)
And to get cooler air to the bottem of the fins on certain heatsinks. (depends on design)

The pics seem to indicate that this design's advantage is that the airflow is directed towards the centre, eliminating the dead spot??
Love to see a review.

Interesting links!
:)

... then have him visit Magneto. (one of the "bahahah" parts of the movie, IMO)

I'm waiting for some actual review of that fan,
thinking it occupies too much space for benefits , if any.

Here's another one:

http://www.icooler.net/news/content....e=2497&topic=1
holy product cloning batman.

be nice to see the innards

Cloning? I've never seen a pump like that. Says it's the smallest pc water cooling pump and it is made for notebooks. I couldn't find any info or a website for SEPA. :(

Characteristics of the pump :
-12VDC pump
-42x42x19mm
-maximum flow rate of 760ml/min = 45.6 L/h (on their website there's evidently a mistake, they wrote 760mL/h :D)
-max pressure of 110 cmH2O

-> http://www.sepa-europe.com/news.php

error? assuming it is (then the ddc comes to mind, hence "cloning" :) ).
wondering if it actually is, could be electro-osmosis based

http://www.modthebox.com/review413_1.shtml
right.