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...