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    Arrow Wow! Fans !!

    This seems a nice technology:
    http://www.bladelessfanstore.com/



    Does anyone have one at home ?

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    Re: Wow! Fans !!

    I've heard it isn't as wonderful as the marketing would have one believe.

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    Re: Wow! Fans !!

    Quote Originally Posted by dilettante View Post
    I've heard it isn't as wonderful as the marketing would have one believe.
    But the idea of "bladeless" seems to be innovative. Isn't it ?

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    Re: Wow! Fans !!

    I've seen one close up. It's pretty awesome you can stick your hand through a fan.
    If they weren't so darn expensive I'd buy one.

    By the way, are they more efficient on energy?
    Delete it. They just clutter threads anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheBigB View Post
    I've seen one close up. It's pretty awesome you can stick your hand through a fan.
    If they weren't so darn expensive I'd buy one.
    You can do that with any fan....at least twice (for most people).
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    Re: Wow! Fans !!

    So....a fan creates a bunch of distinct pulses of air that maintain themselves in strange shapes for a meter or so out from the fan, but this thing creates a laminar flow? Frankly, I don't believe either claim.
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    Re: Wow! Fans !!

    really, just now hearing about this? Been around for a couple years now... and infact, checking the posted date of the linked youtube vid shows almost two years ago to the day...

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    Let's see, 4.99$ desk fan from walmart which keeps me cool or 299$* Air multiplier from dyson which looks neat and keeps me cool.

    Hmmm, I think I'll save the 295$* bucks and forgo a neat looking device. I do like the airblade things they started putting in public restrooms though.

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    I wouldn't consider one here at the office... at home though, it would be nice to be able to watch TV or a movie w/o having to compete against the noisier fan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by techgnome View Post
    I wouldn't consider one here at the office... at home though, it would be nice to be able to watch TV or a movie w/o having to compete against the noisier fan.

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    I was just thinking the exact opposite. Most of the time, the window fan I have running is there for the white noise to drown out the (minimal) street noise that comes through the open window.
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    Re: Wow! Fans !!

    I read a review that said it isn't quiet, just makes a different sound that may be more annoying than a conventional fan's.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RhinoBull View Post
    It's a jet (well sorta) so what would you expect? It's got to make some noise.
    But that is pretty awesome device. A body of mine has one; i'm thinking of buying one myself.
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    http://www.dyson.com/fans/ sounds great. But does it really "sound" good ?

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    They actually are pretty quiet... they are not completely noiseless... clearly, since there is a motor and an an air propulsion mechanism, there is some sound... but it's more like the sound the water pump on an aquarium makes... sort of a whirring noise I guess. It's low key and not as abrasive as a regular fan.

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    Re: Wow! Fans !!

    Gives a whole new meaning to the term: when sh.. hits the fan.

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    P.S: Going by thread title, did anyone else think it was going to be about World of Warcraft??

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    No, I actually expected some god-awful hand wringing over fooootbal.

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    Re: Wow! Fans !!

    Guys, don't hijack my thread. If you want to talk about "WOW: World of Warcrafts", create your own thread. I created this thread to talk about "WOW Fans". Don't deviate it.

    just kidding

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    Re: Wow! Fans !!

    So did you buy one yet and try it out?

    I hear they can cure warts and keep the elephants away too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dilettante View Post
    So did you buy one yet and try it out?

    I hear they can cure warts and keep the elephants away too.
    Not yet. Have to buy one. I need to get one before this summer. So that, I could wear it as a hat which could blow air to my body from top.
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    Or dip it in soapy water and blow big bubbles, hmm?

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    Quote Originally Posted by akhileshbc View Post
    Not yet. Have to buy one. I need to get one before this summer. So that, I could wear it as a hat which could blow air to my body from top.
    Its an Air Multiplier. You are making an attempt to change it into a Body Multiplier !
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    Quote Originally Posted by akhileshbc View Post
    Guys, don't hijack my thread. If you want to talk about "WOW: World of Warcrafts", create your own thread. I created this thread to talk about "WOW Fans". Don't deviate it.
    Wouldn't dream of it...
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    P.S: Going by thread title, did anyone else think it was going to be about World of Watercraft??
    I'm not a boater, so that never occured to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hack View Post
    I'm not a boater, so that never occured to me.
    You got me going there for a moment, I thought I actually wrote Watercraft

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    Cool!

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    Quote Originally Posted by dilettante View Post
    I hear they can cure warts and keep the elephants away too.
    don't hate on the elephants lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by dilettante View Post
    So did you buy one yet and try it out?

    I hear they can cure warts and keep the elephants away too.
    But not both at the same time (read the fine print if you don't believe me). You can elephants without warts, or warts without elephants, but not both.
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