A crackpot idea...

[Karlos]

It's cold here today, my feet are so damn cold I can barely feel below my knees :-(

Then it struck me. Here I am surrounded by computers and things which generally need active cooling to dissipate their thermal load.

So, suppose you got a good length of flexible heatpipe and made your typical copper blocks for CPUs and such, then routed the pipe out of the case and into an undertable foot dock, sufficiently big in surface area not to burn a small part of your foot but evenly warm it all over.

Feetsink, anyone?

[bloodline]

Karlos wrote:
It's cold here today, my feet are so damn cold I can barely feel below my knees :-(

Then it struck me. Here I am surrounded by computers and things which generally need active cooling to dissipate their thermal load.

So, suppose you got a good length of flexible heatpipe and made your typical copper blocks for CPUs and such, then routed the pipe out of the case and into an undertable foot dock, sufficiently big in surface area not to burn a small part of your foot but evenly warm it all over.

Feetsink, anyone?

The USB2 Hard drive on my floor, acts as a very welcome heater for my little tootsies :-)

[Karlos]

I hate having cold feet. It breaks my concentration when I'm coding and induces me to post nonsense on web forums....

[Speelgoedmannetje]

I always use the heatsink of my PIC circuit board to warm my hands

[the_leander]

ATM I've got three systems on full time in this house, which augments the radiator quite nicely :-D

I like the idea about the external hd casing, but for me I'm afraid that once warmed, it would no longer be a feetsink, but a feet stink (OK, I admit it now, thats probably one of the worst puns I've ever put up).

But the principle is sound.

Turning up the heat in this house.... get up and increase the flow to the radiator, or set off instances of Seti@home ;-)