Apartment Therapy Tagged: cooling

Handycooler Personal Air Conditioner

It may look like a handheld digital video camera, but the Handycooler Personal Air Conditioner is an affordable, albeit limited device that may bring you some summertime relief (especially here in LA ...

Good Questions: A Student-Friendly Budget Dehumidifier?

Q - Hey Unplggd, I just moved from California to Indiana for grad school and MAN IS IT HUMID HERE! I can't take it! I walk around and my pits start to soak. Like immediately. Please help! I'm a stude...

How To: Give Your Air Conditioner a Check Up

The summer heat's at our doorsteps and we're guessing most of you are crankin' up your AC more than usual for the first time in a few months. Unfortunately, like all appliances, they tend to decrease ...

DIY Laptop Stand From a $2.99 Ikea CD Rack

A brilliant little idea from a brilliant little Ikea Hacker: In order to raise his laptop's screen to a better height on his desktop, Erik M. modified and repurposed an Ikea CD rack into a cool indust...

Minifit XL: The Cooling Laptop Stand

If you've converted to a laptop as your main computing machine, you know that they can get quite hot, especially when they run at full power, with the contrast and brightness at the highest setting. A...

Belkin Laptop Cooling Stand

Sometimes a piece of wood/paper or a book isn't enough to cool down a laptop when you're working for more than a few hours; laptops like the MacBook can get awfully hot after more than a couple of hou...

The Decor Friendly Otto Wooden Fan

Spring is about to give away over to summer, and that means warmer temperatures and the temptation to turn on the air conditioner. Trying to be energy wise, we normally try to reply upon opening windo...

5 Ways To Keep Rooms Cool While Computing

While there are a million and one laptop coolers out there, from cushy and effective to recycled cardboard, heating always tends to be the issue that comes back to haunt us, even with the most fancifu...

XBOX 360 Noise-Eliminating and Cooling Case

We are in mourning. We just sent our XBOX 360 into the Microsoft Regional Hospital after it showed the signs of extreme fatigue and heat exhaustion: The Red Ring of Death. In our difficult time, we co...

Henning Boegershausen's Foldair Fan

We've got a homely looking Honeywell fan circulating the air in the sauna known as our office currently, both for our computer and our own biological CPU called our noggin. Although the fan does a fin...