BERLIN, GERMANY: I'll be honest, Haier's IFA 2015 press conference was pretty much a snoozefest, but nestled among the washing machines and safety watches that no human child would want was a remarkable bit of innovation: A compressor and motor-free Wine cooler.

I know, this sounds like it’s something just for those who love wine (which would be billions of you), but it could have far-reaching implications, even for the teetotalers out there.

Here’s the idea. Haier took out the bulky, heavy and often noisy compressor necessary for cooling in virtually all refrigerators and even air conditioners and replaced it with a two-inch by two-inch by half-inch thick piece of solid-state circuitry that must be packed with tech, because even though it weighs 25 times less and is 100 times smaller than the compressor, is quite heavy for it diminutive size.

According to Haier, the tiny module combines water and CO2 in a "natural exchange system" to manage the 3 ft. tall wine cooler's temperature. Without a compressor, the cooler is always whisper quiet (less than 30 decibels) and, Haier claims, there are zero vibrations and zero temperature fluctuations. You can set the temperature to be anywhere from 5 degrees Celsius to 20 degrees Celsius.

Raise your glass to the Haier wine cooler that may change the future of cooling technology. Image: Mashable, Michael Rathmayr

The cooling technology is environmentally friendly and energy efficient. It has a low-energy, TFT-based touch screen and, according to Haier, its heat exchange rate is eight times higher than that of an ordinary heat exchanger, which results in a significant energy saving.

While it's awesome that your 40 bottles of wine may be perfectly preserved in perpetuity, the implications of what comes next are far more exciting. During the Thursday afternoon press conference, Haier revealed that not only is it bringing the wine cooler to market in 2016 (pricing has not been set), but it plans to eventually bring the technology to other cooling systems, like refrigerators. Just imagine a noiseless fridge that never loses its cool.