Frosty, the World’s Smallest Ice Maker from Nextreme
Watch Frosty, the world’s smallest ice maker, freeze water on a semiconductor chip, made possible by the thermal copper pillar bump, a new innovation by Nextreme, Inc. When an electrical current is applied, the water immediately freezes to form ice. When the electrical current is removed, the ice returns to a liquid state. All in real-time. Really cool technology from Nextreme. To find out how this works, visit www.nextreme.com
July 13th, 2010 at 8:24 am
1833 actually, and yes, it’s a fairly massive step forward in technology TEC.
July 13th, 2010 at 8:40 am
This n' is nothing, when I go à 7-11, I see à let us glaçons smaller a little everywhere, all the time.
July 13th, 2010 at 9:30 am
do you know how these are made ???? can you generate 3 watts per cm squared ???normall bulk tec’s (peltier modules ) dont evcen come close to this!
July 13th, 2010 at 9:51 am
note when i said “been around for 74 Years though not as small as they are to day” allthough on other note considering the manufacturing of TEC units is just two plates with a coating it could techniquely be cut to any size one wished, though watt tolarance would change dramaticly,
July 13th, 2010 at 9:53 am
yea but were they THIS small 74 years ago??? I think it is groundbreaking that they made a thermoelectric chip this freaking tiny. bravo!
July 13th, 2010 at 10:17 am
its jus a ThermoElectric Diode aka Peltier diode those have been around for 74 Years though not as small as they are to day and there only about 5-10% as effective as Compression style cooling used in refrigerators and freezers. , Sorry Nextream you didnt invent this not so groundbreaking technologie thats been around sense oh 1933