Patent ID: 7184925

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: one or more control components that emulate one or more operational characteristics of one or more electronic devices, before a planned presence of the one or more electronic devices, through employment of one or more actual thermal components coupled with an actual frame; wherein the one or more control components regulate actual thermal energy generated by the one or more actual thermal components to physically emulate one or more of the one or more operational characteristics before the planned presence of the one or more electronic devices; wherein the one or more control components emulate one or more of the one or more operational characteristics of the one or more electronic devices, before the planned presence of the one or more electronic devices, through employment of one or more actual fans coupled with the actual frame; wherein one or more of the one or more actual thermal components and one or more of the one or more actual fans at least in part physically substitute for one or more of the one or more electronic devices before the planned presence of the one or more electronic devices.