Watch! Cyberpower’s bizarre Kinetic case 'breathes' to cool itself

Watch! Cyberpower'due south bizarre Kinetic case 'breathes' to absurd itself

Cyberpower PC Kinetic case

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At CES 2022, every bit at whatever major tech show, you can expect to see some truly weird tech. What's rare is truly weird tech from a major manufacturer.

The Cyberpower PC Kinetic case looks like something out of a David Cronenberg pic: a facsimile of a living thing, warped beyond recognition, but just familiar enough to exist unsettling. Instead of simple vents, the Kinetic case opens and closes valves algorithmically, in a system that Cyberpower calls "intelligent airflow."

Before we get any farther with the description, this is one of those things yous're simply going to accept to see for yourself. There's a video of the Kinetic case in action on YouTube, and one time y'all see information technology, yous can't unsee it.

In instance you've elected to not lookout the video, the Kinetic is a white gaming PC case with a serial of bronze and white prisms jutting out on the front. (One side is opaque, the other side is transparent glass, so that you tin can see your components.) The xviii bronze prisms are really vents, which the Kinetic case can open and close based on the organisation's internal temperature. There's no price listed notwithstanding, and the "coming presently" on Cyberpower'due south website sounds vaguely threatening.

The video shows the Kinetic'due south vents opening and closing in an unpredictable sequence, resembling goose egg so much equally pair upon pair of mechanical lips, inhaling and exhaling. Cyberpower's engineers claim that this "intelligent airflow" arrangement improves cooling, as well equally reducing noise and limiting the amount of grit that gets within a machine. Nosotros're not precisely sure why this would work better than, say, a traditional vent with very minor holes, but we haven't been able to test information technology for ourselves, either.

As you might expect, the reaction to the Kinetic case is pretty mixed in the YouTube comments. Some users think it's nigh time for something new in case design, while others call up it's an atrocious lot of breakable components in what's supposed to be the most foolproof role of a PC. Personally, I can't see how the Kinetic would improve performance essentially over a traditional mesh screen, merely I do see how it could waste matter a lot of energy in the process.

In whatsoever case, nosotros'll know more about the Kinetic case when Cyberpower shares farther details, probably later on in 2022. Until then, the visitor is still selling more than traditional cases, which withal feature fashionable extras, such every bit RGB fans and see-through side panels.

If you want more tech news as it happens, check out or CES 2022 alive weblog. Otherwise, cheque back in a few months to whether the Kinetic has devoured us whole.

Marshall Honorof is a senior editor for Tom's Guide, overseeing the site'south coverage of gaming hardware and software. He comes from a scientific discipline writing background, having studied paleomammalogy, biological anthropology, and the history of scientific discipline and technology. After hours, y'all can find him practicing taekwondo or doing deep dives on classic sci-fi.