News GE unveils piezoelectric fan replacement technology

When can I get some in servers?

I come away from some customers partially deaf.

 

I wasn't aware that cooling was so hung up on the accepted wisdom for its cooling

It's an intriguing idea, it'd be interesting to see how they perform against standard (that's conventional convection ) fans.

Should we be worried, though, that everyone in the video was wearing safety goggles - even the besuited VP?

 

So they only make the Minigun then?

Quite strange that we use a lot of GE stuff at work which aren't miniguns, suppose we aren't blinkered like some.

Also I work in a research lab, and most of the time we have to wear safety gear, so I do not understand you're question, its just basic health & safety.

 

Easily in the top 5 largest corporations on the planet.

 

I'd rather have the Minigun meself like

 

"down far more efficiently than just convention alone"

Convention? do you mean convection?

 

The prob with GE is they have almost everything you can image, and you can't be good at everything PERIOD!

 

Honestly, this is one of the coolest bits of tech I've seen in a while. If their performance claims hold up, and the price is reasonable, I could see these being quite a big deal.

 

When I think GE, I think jet engines for planes. So you're both wrong!

 

Actually, when I think GE I think Six Sigma and loads of middle managers creating projects just so that they can get their black belts...

 

Going to have to disagree with you there. While every person whose played a video game with guns in the past twenty years likely is aware of the minigun, I can pretty well guarantee very, very few are aware it was invented by GE.

When I think GE, I think light bulb commercials with that 'we bring good things to life' jingle...but maybe that was a US thing.

At any rate, nice to see them actually investing in some R & D - seems a lot of corporations don't like spending money on anything if it won't make them a profit within the next two quarters.

I won't argue with the performance, since it seems to work (and damn - a design that simple nobody thought up until 2012? Humanity, I am disappoint.) But I'm not seeing how it will work to make a 200mm big boy lit up with super-bright, garish LEDs

 

Yeah, I didnt know GE made the minigun - however it doesn't really warrant the kind of reception that small sentence is getting... get over it, guys

Seems like an interesting piece of tech - I would LOVE a cheap solution to making my pc entirely silent, and since this is simply a few pieces of metal that vibrated I would imagine that it would get fairly cheap fairly quick

edit: also, as wireless power gets a bit cheaper I wonder if these could be powered wirelessly... then you could just stick them anywhere in your case, or all over your case, without the need for wires (would dramatically increase the price though I would imagine!)