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MacBook stand that also serves as a heatsink

A few years ago when I was looking for a laptop stand for my MacBook Pro, I wondered why no company made a stand that also served as a heatsink. There were plenty of stands that had other mechanisms built into them that cooled down a laptop, but I always wondered why no heatsink existed that just elevated the MacBook as a whole.

Well, Bryan Wong made one. It's not for sale (yet), but the prototype here looks amazing and serves the dual function of elevating the laptop and keeping it cool by drawing heat away from the computer's enclosure and into the surrounding space.

Check out some photos of this beautiful thing!

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How to use a CPU heatsink to cool a TV dinner

Health effects of eating frozen dinners aside, if you've ever wondered whether you could more efficiently cool off your microwaved TV dinner using a computer heatsink, well, the answer is YES YOU CAN. But how much more effective is it? VERY. Probably not the answer you were looking for, but it works well is what I'm saying. Maybe too well.

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