No fans. No noise. Silent cooling is the future of gaming handhelds

Silent gaming handhelds? It sounds like pure fiction, but at CES 2026, that idea felt a little more real. A company called Ventiva caught my colleague Adam Patrick Murray’s attention when he tried out their fanless cooling tech running on a Lenovo Legion Go 2. And yes—it was actually silent. No fan noise, no ramping up under load. Just a handheld doing its thing without sounding stressed.

The trick here is Ventiva’s ionic device, which ditches fans entirely. Instead of using fans, it moves heat away in a totally different way using ionic cooling. That means no spinning, no vibrations. And, just to be clear, this isn’t something you can actually buy yet.

With handhelds, there’s always a delicate balancing act between power, heat, and noise. Even the good ones get loud once you start pushing them. Ventiva’s tech hints at a future where these devices don’t need to sound like they’re about to rocket off just to stay cool.

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