French computing company Qarnot is bringing back space heaters en vogue into offices and even households. Introducing the third iteration of Q.rad, the digital space heater is an embedded cloud-computing system in disguise that provides heating the area of a room between 150 to 300 sq. feet, while it does some computations. There are conflicting reports of which processor the Q.rad runs on, but Qarnot has clarified that it supports both Intel Core i7 and AMD Ryzen 7 processors.

More info can be found at the company’s website at this link.



Basically, the company is asking you to lend them the space that you would be using for a heater anyway, by allowing them to set up a Q.rad in your home. This means that the company needs less space for its server infrastructure, cuts down cooling costs for its cloud computing hardware, and offers you free 500 W of heating power. Electricity costs of the Q.rad’s operation are taken into account by an integrated counter, which calculates energy expenses and refunds them to the host.

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