Last year, I reviewed a new liquid cooler with a screen on it. It's called the Hyte Thicc Q60, and it comes with a 5-inch screen powered by an ARM chip and running Android. I had two main thoughts at the time: 'this is a novel idea' and 'this is absolutely ridiculous'. Little did I know that a year later, I'd be walking around the showfloor at Taiwan's top tech show, Computex 2025, and the majority of the companies I would visit would be a liquid cooler with a screen plonked on the top.
Hyte wasn't the first to stick a screen on a liquid cooler, but it certainly went to great lengths to stand out from the crowd. At Computex, I saw companies going to ever more extreme lengths for much the same reasons. Over at Lian Li, it showed off a prototype for a liquid cooler that not only features a screen but said screen is motorised, allowing for a user to move it up, down, left, and right with the click of a button. Next to it, a liquid cooler with a dial to control some of its functionality.
