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Phone cooler makers need to chill with all the ice


The pendulum swings too far for these once-hot phones.

But there are companies out there marketing a different solution: little stick-on phone-cooling fans that purport to draw all that heat away. In this scenario I’ve invented, this Trakxy Magnetic Phone Cooler for Gaming is what our patient zero would look like. Maybe a bit excessive, but I don’t think I’d look at this lavender-colored puck and correctly guess its purpose otherwise, so it gets a pass.

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