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-[* black] It was a lot of work just getting this far, but things are starting to get more interesting. Out comes the motherboard—the brains of this headset.
+[* black] It was a lot of work just getting this far, but things are starting to get more interesting. We bypass the modular headphone jack and button board, going straight for the motherboard—the brains of this whole operation.
[* black] Perched on top is a cooling fan—which looks very much like a small laptop fan—courtesy of Cooler ~~PC~~Master~~Race~~.
[* black] Twirling away the handful of screws isn't enough to free the heat sink, which is very stubbornly glued in place. After a good ten minutes of heating and prying, it gives up the board.
-[* icon_note] There's a lot of processing power packed into a pretty small space, so it makes sense to see a heavier-duty thermal solution here than we'd normally see in devices this size.
+[* icon_note] This is a lot of cooling for a small, wearable device—but it makes sense given the job it has to do. There's a lot of heat-generating silicon in there. Just don't put it in your pocket. Unless you like hot pockets.