Designed and developed to be put on Kickstarter,  the Airbar is a laptop cooling pad that is a more portable, effective, and better made alternative than the other cooling pads on the market today.

 I helped worked on this product during my time at Hotpot Design (hotpotdesign.com).  I did the majority of the 3d modeling in Solidworks for both the aluminum housing as well as the air chambers.  I also made the hip little felt protector sleeve.  I'm still sad this was never made funding. Every time I'm in a coffee shop on my Macbook I shed a little tear for it.  

Initial Development

We wanted to rethink the way air is collected and channeled along the laptop surface that allows for a very small form factor.  We directed air from powerful quiet blowers into specifically engineered chamber to create laminar air flow.  Laminar air flow is the process of taking air and directing it through channels that narrow and divide the air to create thin sheets of directed air. We analyzed our initial CAD designs through air flow testing to achieve our desired cooling affect. As a result of this testing, many evolving prototypes were developed to achieve maximization of air flow and efficiency utilizing a negligible amount of power draw through our Micro USB.