<div id="readability-page-1"><figure> <img src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/qFhDWnYNtKk_qI7CtxAvTBcgcW8=/0x25:1092x753/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/73314070/Neveika_phone_cooler.0.jpg?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg" width="1310" height="873" original-src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/qFhDWnYNtKk_qI7CtxAvTBcgcW8=/0x25:1092x753/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/73314070/Neveika_phone_cooler.0.jpg"/> <figcaption>That’s too cold! | Image: Amazon</figcaption> </figure> I don’t know about you, but when I have a nasty case of the hot phone, I have to get rid of that heat this instant. Just kidding, I usually just put it down for a while or restart it when it’s being especially stubborn. But there are companies out there marketing a different solution: little stick-on phone-cooling fans that purport to draw all that heat away. And their product images are a little, uh, excessively icy. How did it come to this? What kicked off this arms race of increasingly frosty phones? I have to assume things started innocently enough, but these RGB-riddled things are pretty squarely aimed at gamers — I’d guess it didn’t take long for these product shots to snowball into the wildly unrealistic pictures on Amazon today. ... Continue reading…</div>

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Phone cooler makers are marketing stick-on phone-cooling fans that claim to draw heat away. The excessively icy product images are aimed at gamers, leading to unrealistic pictures on Amazon.

Phone cooler makers need to chill with all the ice