Cool your laptop with Chinese opera

(Credit: SourcingMap)

Back when I was a kid, we had to blow on our laptops (and carry them 10 miles in the snow, by the way) to keep them cool. These days, you young whippersnappers have things a whole lot easier.

Take, for example, the Chinese Beijing Opera USB laptop cooling pad. Just plug it in. It contains three quiet built-in fans to dissipate hot air from underneath your notebook and keep your system cool. But it's also a decorative nod to the high drama of Chinese opera.

The cooling pad is powered via a retractable USB cable, and is light and portable, weighing about 1.5 pounds. An added bonus: that fierce-looking red, white, and black face mask might scare off laptop thieves.

The cooling pad goes for $24.99 online, plus a $5 shipping fee. Rhythmic accompaniment not included. Thanks, Jenny, for sending this one in.

[OblivionSundae]

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[DJ_Lae]

I've always wondered who buys laptop coolers. I've never had a problem with overheating even when I game for hours on mine, and the graphics card and cpu never hit cutoff temperatures.

[520xyz]

i really need this one, my laptop often overheat when i game for hours

BTW, which trademark you choose? IBM,HP .etc?

[7aji88]

WOW!! NEVER KNEW ABOUT LAPTOP COOLERS!! THANKS FOR THIS GREAT VALUABLE INFORMATION!!!

let's be real here, why is this on crave?? And who buys laptop coolers anyway??

[nedloh321]

Laptops usually get warm, but not too bad. However, I am buying this for my Xbox 360, which tends to heat up disks to an almost untouchable temperature if the game has been played for a few hours. Try not to be too obnoxiously sarcastic next time.

[mmntech]

Laptop coolers really don't work all that well anyway.