Nextreme, Inc., an new startup out of North Carolina, has announced a new cooling device for chips that gives me an excuse to write an Ars story that contains two words that I haven't used together on ...

Anyone who heats with a wood stove knows that the experience is completely different from typical central heating. It’s not for everyone, though, and it’s certainly not without its trade-offs. One of ...

Vigor Gaming is a smaller company founded by hardcore gamers with the intent of putting out a product line that will take your enthusiast rig to the next level. Given their background, they have a ...

I'm considering building a reasonably large peltier-based cooler for camping purposes. Has anyone messed around with these? I'm considering using either 2" or 4" of blue foamboard insulation (R10 or ...

Five series of Peltier modules from CUI, the CP20H, CP30H, CP39H, CP60H, and CP85H, feature a low profile and high temperature delta of 77°C. The Peltier devices leverage CUI’s arcTEC structure, which ...

Once an exotic component, solid state heat pumps or Peltier devices are now pretty mainstream. The idea is simple: put electricity through a Peltier device and one side gets hot while the other side ...

In Part 1, we did an overview of the general concept of the Peltier device. In this installment, we are going to continue the discussion around controlling the device and some initial packaging. For a ...

(Nanowerk News) French physicist Jean Charles Athanase Peltier discovered a key concept necessary for thermoelectric (TE) temperature control in 1834. His findings were so significant, TE devices are ...

Once in a while a homemade device comes along that is so darn handy that it's destined for mass market distribution. The Peltier Beer personal beverage cooler is one such device. Basically a drink ...