Take A Lab Tour Of This Solid-State Cooling Tech

During CES 2023 Gordon got a demo of AirJet - a potentially revolutionary solid state active cooling system for tech like laptops. In this video Gordon gets a tour of the labs at Frore Systems and follows up with Seshu Madhavapeddy, the Founder and CEO, about some of the biggest questions people had concerning this technology. He also gets to check out how the AirJet is tested for things like dust and reliability.

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00:00 - Intro
00:21 - How AirJet Works
03:00 - Dust Protection
05:44 - AirJet vs Fans
07:19 - Reliability Testing
09:08 - Is This Solid State?
10:14 - Shape Explanation
11:59 - Schlieren Imaging Demo
13:59 - What Is Jet Impingement?
15:05 - Heat Testing
16:09 - The Business Case
17:25 - Laptop Demos
25:11 - Upcoming Products

[Fishsticksdos]

As long as they don't become an exclusive for 1 specific company... this will be revolutionary for laptops phones and anything that uses low power.

[__aceofspades]

Glad to see PCWorld did a deeper dive interview with AirJet, as IF it takes off, it will likely revolutionize laptops, tablets, and maybe even some phones. Also glad to see AirJet is actually doing product tests to make sure they are commercially viable, and arent just some concept product.

[juggernautjunky]

Selfishly, I would love to see this tech used in future handhelds, like the potential Steam Deck 2 and Switch 2, as well.

[praxisrebourne]

I just hope their tech is available for as many different categories as possible. This shows some real promise.

[SirKakalaCh]

As an engineer, it felt so good as he explained his product. He was so knowledgeable and humble, good job and I would love to buy my next laptop with AirJet!!! Thanks Gordon for making this deep dive!

[jamescampbell]

That is whisper-quiet. I'd be really interested to see what kind of exotic cooling you could do with this. And I'm also curious what kind upper limit we have on how many watts you can dissipate

To me this would be really great for Led backlights in televisions. Or even OLED. Imagine an OLED having the cooling capacity of a BVM without the huge increase in form factor. This technology is insanely cool.

I also have two any beam MEMS laser projectors. They are already fanless and low Watt, but if you could put one of these inside you could potentially get a much Brighter Image out of a Pico projector like that. I wish this company nothing but success

[Shadow__X]

slight mistake around 12:05 in that schlieren umaging is used to visualize air currents, not heat flow in particular. it can visualize hot air because it works with differences in air density (specifically refractive index, which can change based on density) but also works with any other type of moving gas, including room temperature

[jonathand]

I appreciate Gordon asking good questions, sometimes things are to good to be true. It looks something true, look forward to products having them.

[zivzulander]

Excellent video, I enjoyed the lab tour and explanations by Seshu. The test with laptop retrofit was interesting. It would be great if AirJets were made available for aftermarket/DIY use at some point. I could see them being used for cooling SBCs, modding laptops (especially more repair-friendly ones like Framework's), ultra low-power mini PCs, handheld consoles/PCs (e.g. SteamDeck), and smaller computer components (like nvme SSDs, as mentioned in the video).

Also, that noise comparison sample isn't just quieter but also has a much more pleasant sound signature (I'm not a fan of centrifugal fans/blowers in laptops). Very interested in seeing this hit the market.

[catalystguitarguy]

this is probably the most interesting cooling technology, that I'm looking forward to seeing being implemented broadly in the tech world.

[Deinorius]

One thing I was missing (maybe I didn't hear it) was power efficiency. Their own data says this technique needs some power to work. And it doesn't look like it's not a low amount.
Battery life is crucially important to mobile devices and I would like to see data that shows that it works well for that.

[ilikehiking]

I hope that instead of including this in devices only, they will also consider letting us buy this without a device attached to it. So many scenarios where this could be useful.

[ole]

Coming out this year, that is really amazing. True innovation just around the corner.

[HenryKlausEsq.]

So glad you guys followed up on this. Super interesting. Gordon really asked all the right questions.

[AutodidactEngineer]

Hopefully we get these on mobile devices soon!

[aizenbob]

I'd have a very important question, I know those use 1 watt of power to remove 5 watt of heat but he didn't tell us for fan's how much heat a fan can remove per watt. If it's equal it's good, if it uses less power than a fan than yes that's a great achievment.

[Mark_Williams.]

Talk to Valve about a Steam Deck 2, would be great to see in something like that. I hope this tech catches on!

[brakiwiever]

What about energy consumption? Would be good to see a comparative chart of the impact it will have, not only on the performance of the process but on the battery life.

[rdshftd]

I really like this guy. He explains things so well. You can tell he's a super smart guy, but he has a knack for explaining things simply.

[andysPARK]

Really cool innovation. Look forward to see it used in many devices. Good job frore 😎