From using frozen blocks to stuffing the gaps with old newspaper, here’s how to get the most chill for your buck, without wasting ice or space ...

You might want a one-size-fits-all option, or you might decide you need two different cool bags or boxes for different things. There are active and passive cool bags. Passive ones insulate food ...

Dometic built a cooling empire with its electric ice boxes. With the brand-new Recon system, it goes back to the basics.

We've tested electric cool boxes and passive ones on everything from insulation to durability and portability. Cooler boxes from top brands such as Thermos, Igloo, Coleman and others have been put ...

“As a collective, we knew the passive house ice box would win every challenge, but we didn’t know by how much,” Shaun St-Amour, head of Footprint, wrote in an email to the Philly challenge ...

Find out more about how we test. Welcome to our YETI Roadie 48 Wheeled Cool Box review, a humongous two-wheeled passive cool box for extended family camping, long boating trips, beach parties and ...

From compact picnic coolers to high-tech electric models, here are the best cool boxes for keeping drinks icy and food fresh ...

Similarly sized powered freezers retail for half this price while providing better cooling. At the same time, you can find passive cooler boxes for much less.

A passive (non-electric) straightforward box or bag are those where the cooling comes from pre-frozen ice packs. They, too, are varied in size, style, weight and price. All cool boxes and bags ...

A startup, Phononic, says that it has a new twist on what sounds like a Peltier cooler, using electrical energy to cool a processor in a PC or a data center. Phononic announced the Hex 2.0 CPU ...

Passive insulation technology can only help ... Here’s a useful rule of thumb: a properly packed cool box can retain ice for days. One that’s half full, poorly prepped, and stored in direct ...