GELID ICY PAD UNIVERSAL COOLER

The Gelid IcyPad is designed to cool routers and media streamers, which might be a niche need, but it’s a need nonetheless. If you’re using regularly pushing a small, passively cooled media streamer to its limit, or if all your network kit is hidden in cramped confines behind the sofa, sometimes an external cooler is just what you need to prevent your hardware from falling over. For anyone else, though, if your router or media streamer needs an external cooling pad under normal conditions, we’d suggest it was either broken or severely flawed in the first place. Essentially just a passport-sized box containing an 80mm fan, the IcyPad’s simplicity is reflected in its down-toearth price. Annoyingly, however, the cooler emits an audible high whoosh as it does its business. The noise isn’t offensive, but it’s clearly perceptible (and therefore distracting) in a quiet room, even with a router on top of it, muffling the sound.