Water cooled notebooks?

[Taro Toporific]

YES! Now I can poach an egg on my Ti PowerBook for breakfast rather than just fry one.

NEC offers water cooling module for notebooks
CNETAsia / Tuesday, July 1 2003 8:57 AM
Japanese electronics firm NEC has announced a water-cooling system for notebooks...The firm states that their fanless water-cooling system is the slimmest ever made, thanks to the use of a more powerful piezoelectric pump and improved non-permeable materials which prevent evaporation, thus reducing the volume of water required. Using the system only adds 5 mm to the overall thickness of the notebook.

[DJEB]

Good thing it's slim. It'll make room for the bulky fell cell:

Fuel cell laptop promises long life

The days of rushing to get your work finished before your laptop runs out of power could soon be at an end.
Japanese electronics giant NEC has unveiled a laptop computer that has a built-in fuel cell that can keep the machine running for far longer than battery-driven models.

Early versions of the fuel cell can keep a laptop going for five hours.

Within two years NEC said running times between fuel cell refills could be 40 hours or more.

Power craze

The small fuel cell is powered by 300cc (half a pint) of methanol and uses a catalyst to break this down into oxygen and hydrogen and generates heat and power as a by- product.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3031870.stm

[Taro Toporific]

Good thing it's slim. It'll make room for the bulky fell cell:

Fuel cell laptop promises long lifehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3031870.stm

Laptop Powered by Farts
NEC Corp. Monday revealed a prototype of a laptop computer that runs on a methanol fuel cell...

"Bulky?"
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit it's bigger than my printer/scanner.