Quick and easy personal evaporative cooler

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This quick and easy evaporative cooler might be just the thing the next time the air conditioning goes on the fritz. [Stephen] saw an eBay listing for a personal air conditioner that used a moist sponge and fan to send some cool relief your way. But he wanted to run his own test to see if it really did anything before laying down the cash. The idea is to run air past a moisture source. Some of … [Read more...]

UberBong: Evaporative PC cooling, probably

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We're not 100% sure what exactly is going on here. It appears to be a massive evaporative cooling rig for a computer, though the title has us wondering if it doesn't have any other uses. There isn't much of a description, but we felt the sheer magnitude of this cooling system warranted some publicity. Some digging around shows that this was out in 2003, but it is new to us. [via reddit] … [Read more...]