Temperature sensitive color-changing PC parts

[Dizzious]

I'm sure at least some of you here remember having toys as a kid that would change color depending on whether they were hot or cold. I remember one of my favorite toys when I was like 4 was a Matchbox car that changed from red to white when I put it in the freezer. Fun stuff.

How about someone makes a coolant or coolant dye that reacts to temperature changes in such a way? Coolant that's blue when it's cool & turns red as it gets hot would be awesome.

Why stop at cooling? How about sata & otherwise cables that change to a different color when they get hot? Or a heatsink &/or fan that does the same?

If anyone needs me, I'll be at the patent office.

[stlouis1]

ill have an XL double double to go please

[Zefram]

Well, we're more accustomed to UV-sensitive device than a color changing by temperature devices.

GEiL Memory (http://www.geil.com.tw/products/show/id/23) have those stickers which change color depending on the temperature of the memory modules.
GEiL brands are famous during the DDR1 era, but they're kinda overpriced for its performance and kinda left out in the dark :p

[Dizzious]

Oh, that's cool. I don't think I've seen any products from Geil lately, come to think of it.

Alsa makes some temp-sensitive color-change paint that apparently works really well.
http://www.alsacorp.com/products/eclipse/showcase/IMG_0517.jpg ...check that out... I think I would have opted for white-to-red for the bathtub, though.

Laptop painted with that would be pretty cool... you'd end up with like a topo map of the hot zones.

[Comixion]

When I lose connection in L4D I turn beet red. Does that count?

[Zefram]

Laptop painted with that would be pretty cool... you'd end up with like a topo map of the hot zones.

I wouldn't do that.

Although it look cool, the paint itself would add additional thermal barrier that prohibits heat from seeping out from the laptop surface.

Anyway, another cool stuff that you might want to know about is the Water Detection Sticker (http://gadgetopia.com/post/5588), those small sticker inside your phone that turned their color when it came in contact with water. That's how they know you void the warranty if the phone came in contact with water.

[Dizzious]

Eh. I don't think a layer of paint is going to make a laptop get noticeably hotter. Most laptops are already equipped with quite a bit of overhead in the heat dissipation department - say for instance you've got two XPS M1330's, identical except for one has a T8100 cpu, one has the T9500. The one with the T8100 is definitely going to run cooler - I haven't checked to see if they have the same TDP, and I don't care - a 2.6ghz chip with twice the cache is always going to put off a bunch more heat than a 2.1ghz chip that has the same core.

Zef, I think I've got you on this one, unless you can find me a link to a case where someone painted their laptop & it started running significantly hotter.

[Lavaandy]

You mean **** like this?

http://alsacorp.com/products/eclipse/eclipse_prodinfo.htm

[Lavaandy]

Or even better this stuff is made to do what you describe, I saw it a few years back and thought it was pretty cool.

http://scientificsonline.com/product.asp_Q_pn_E_3053484

[Dizzious]

You mean **** like this?

http://alsacorp.com/products/eclipse/eclipse_prodinfo.htm

yeah, exactly.

I had seen the Alsa stuff already, though. I posted earlier with an image from the same site :p Looks pretty awesome.



Or even better this stuff is made to do what you describe, I saw it a few years back and thought it was pretty cool.

http://scientificsonline.com/product.asp_Q_pn_E_3053484

+rep for giving me the link to that site. I love random sciencey crap like that.

[Lavaandy]

yeah, exactly.

I had seen the Alsa stuff already, though. I posted earlier with an image from the same site :p Looks pretty awesome.





+rep for giving me the link to that site. I love random sciencey crap like that.

I used to get the magazine it was pretty cool.