There is a simple way to keep your netbook or laptop from turning your legs into a hot iron griddle. They've been around almost as long as laptops themselves and have proven themselves time and again: Notebook coolers. From the ultra-compact foldaway ones to the gigantic models intended for those widescreen behemoths that people are using now, notebook coolers are everywhere. And they seem to get more inventive, more practical, and uglier by the minute.

The Coolermaster Choiix Air-Through Stash we're reviewing today meets all that criteria, except the ugly part, and even gives you room to put in up to 500GB of storage. That's right, you can take an old 2.5 SATA/SSD HDD (up to 500GB) and put it in this bad boy for nondescript data storage. All I can say is that it's about time someone found a use for all that extra space on notebook coolers that didn't involve some faux fur-lined drawer that's just big enough to fit a USB stick