Cooling Fan for PSP - The Joke That Wasn't Really A Joke

April 6th, 2006, 08:38 Posted By: wraggster

Story from Lik Sang



We received a product last week that we thought to be an April fool, but apparently the maker was seriously thinking of selling it to you [through us]. If there was an award for the most useless video game peripheral ever made, this Cooling Fan for the PSP would be a strong contender for sure. When holding it in our hands we thought this was just another of those cooling fans that capitalize on the paranoid fear that some gamers have to live with: what if my beloved system would overheat?! Except usually, cooling fans are made for living rooms consoles or computers that have ventilation holes in them, and you know what, in the case of the Xbox or the Xbox 360, looking at the demand for replacement power supplies, cooling fans sometimes even kind of make sense. But for a small tiny PSP with no ventilation holes at all, you can see how it becomes kind of pointless.

Never the less, since we’re professional technicians here we never finalize a decision without testing the product sample, and that's where it got really hilarious. That thing plugs onto the back of your PSP and blows a bit of air through the very thin gap at the back of your UMD slot, and on the top of your screen as well. The amount of air that actually enters the UMD compartment is probably close to zero, and it obviously makes no difference there. On top of the LCD display, the power of the fan is far from being enough to even get some dust moving... if that even was the point (who knows really, I still couldn’t find *any* point in the gadget by that stage). In fact, when putting the fan 2 millimeters away from our faces, we realized it doesn’t even blow strongly enough for us to feel "some" wind on our faces. Nada. A two year old living next door blowing out the candles on his cake has more impact on the heat inside of your PSP than this item. The packing claimed that it would extend the lens life by two years!

The PSP Cooling Fan smells a lot like a rip-off for tourists who are drunk while shopping through the local Mong Kok street market. Once you get sober and find out not only the girl was uglier than you thought, but that you also shouldn't have bought that useless piece of tech that never made any sense to anybody, including the maker, you go back to the Mong Kok street outlet to return it, only to find out it moved three blocks away and the owner tells you "no warranty, no return" after failing to recognize you for ten minutes. In one short sentence that speaks volumes: good stuff -- but not Lik Sang material.

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