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June 08, 2006
Nanofreeze Wants Its Chips In Your Fridge In 5 Years
Over the years, we've seen a lot of pitches to put new technologies into refrigerators. Remember the Internet-fridge (pictured right) that would remind us when to buy milk?
Well here's one that is a little more compelling. Nanofreeze Technologies, a freshly founded spin off from Lund University in Sweden, has developed coolling chips that it says are powerful enough to work as a heat exchanger, "effectively replacing" the compressors used in refrigerators.
More immediately, it is looking at integrating its chips in cellphones, PCs, and other electronics systems. It has developed semiconductor devices with 10 to 15 times higher performance than so called Peltier-elements, it claims. (such as those from recently funded MicroPelt in Germany?)
The startup announced winning a €30K innovation prize in Sweden last week.
Read: Nanofreeze wins Lund Innovation prize 2006
Read: Micropelt: cooling in a microchip (a:c euro)
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