Ice Cap Chills And Aerates Your Wine In Seconds

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Good wine can be fussy. It needs to be served chilled, and preferably let to breathe for a bit. But with the Ice Cap, you can expedite the process somewhat. It’s a refrigerated funnel of sorts that cools and aerates your wine as you’re pouring it into your glass. Simply place the Ice Cap in the freezer for a few hours, then place it on top of your glass and pour your room-temperature wine. The wine will run through the chilled coils, aerating and cooling down at the same time, dropping any beverage’s temperature by up to 10 °C in seconds. We’re not sure how many glasses it’s able to handle before it need to be cooled down again, but we can’t imagine it not being able to handle at least a couple of them. For $35, it’s a handy gadget to keep in the kitchen.

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Beer Glass Froster

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Summer’s almost here and you definitely don’t want to be drinking your beer out of a warm glass (unless you’re British I guess). Get an icy cold glass in just 10 seconds with the Beer Glass Froster. Beer Glass Froster In the old days (everything prior to me writing this post) if you wanted a frosted glass you had to put it in the freezer ahead of time. But what about if you wanted a refill?

Now you just place a beer, rocks, or margarita glass under this CO2 powered froster and let a frosty cloud of CO2 cover your glass and get it icy cold right away. The stainless steel froster clamps onto your bar or countertop and has a blue LED light for effect. Requires a CO2 tank or cylinder and AAA batteries if you want it light up.
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Intel treats servers to mineral oil bath in year-long cooling test

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If putting liquid cooling pumps, hoses and water inside a highly electrified computer case doesn't seem crazy enough, how about just dunking the whole kit and kaboodle into oil? That's what Intel did with a rack full of servers, and if the oil in question is of the non-conducting mineral kind, it's actually a very chill idea. After a year of testing with Green Revolution Cooling, the chip giant saw some of the best power usage efficiency ratings it's seen, with the oil-cooled PCs easily besting identical, air-cooled units. The company believes more adapted heat sinks could push the gains even further, and affirmed that the technology was safe and didn't affect hardware reliability. Cost savings could be enormous, as server rooms wouldn't need raised floors, air conditioning units or chillers -- if you don't consider oil spills and ruined clothing, of course.

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