Warm gadgets needed for laptop cool base users

Microsoft's new laptop cooler will keep the laptop cool, and your hands, too. Cold hands using the laptop were always kept warm from the heat of a laptop computer. Now, with the heat gone, cold computer hands will be a problem for laptop users. Commonly reported a cold mouse hand and cold keyboard hands are experienced by desk top users. Laptop users relied upon the heat generated from the laptop to keep their digits warm.

The laptop cooler may be a welcomed gadget during the summer, but as soon as the temperatures drop and hands get cold, people will turn to their warm mouse, heated mouse pad and heated keyboard pad for relief.

New laptop cooler
By Stanley A. Miller II of the Journal Sentinel

Microsoft announced two new computer accessories today, a notebook cooling base and its popular Arc Mouse in new colors. The sleek, slim notebook cooling base -- measuring only 1.16 inches thick -- is designed to do just what you'd expect: keep your laptop from getting uncomfortably warm. It does this using a fan and a cooling channel, and the base is contoured to rest firmly on your desk or lap, offering an ergonomically friendly typing angle. It also has a cable management clip, and it's powered via a computer's USB port so no batteries are needed. The base comes in white and black and costs $30.