Dyson Fan

In reply to xd:

But for $300.

Yup its way overpriced just like everything else Dyson makes but at least they spend their earnings in a good way :-) They have them set up and running at Best Buy if you want to experience. I have a silent fan that moves way more air than this, its bolted to my celing and it costs about $40 so blah!

Chris_V wrote: ...These were "invented" as a side discovery when creating those hand driers. None of the parts that actually move teh air are in a location where you could get hurt accidntally, or are hard to clean (nothing worse than a room fan with filthy, dusty blades because people can't be bothered to take the grillework off and clean the blades...

Are you saying the Dyson fans would be easier to clean?

They would be WAY harder to clean because the fan is buried in the base. I have not seen the bathroom fans, but I suspect they are also hard to clean. And, unless they are drawing outside air, they (and other bathroom blowers / fans) are just turbocharging airborne poo particles onto your formally clean hands!

I could see the Dyson fan being useful for scale aerodynamics wind tunnel testing (smooth airflow), but other than that just a funky (and expensive) gadget.

In reply to 96DXCivic:

I didn't pay for mine. So maybe that's why I like it so much. I would pay 300 for it though. Its a great fan.

Reminds me of an old ship's fog horn.

I looked at one in a box store, not enough air, not silent, and doesn't work as good as the $12 fan I got at Walmart. It sure looks good when you show it to the Jones though.

Some of you here are a little older than me. Some of you haven't lived in a room without air conditioning while studying for finals in 94* heat for a few years, or decades. Let me tell you, there are only two solutions, depending on your space requirements. Both are hotlinked below.

Lesley wrote: Cripes. I was expecting to see this:

A couple years ago when I was driving to work that was parked out in their parking lot. I almost hit a garbage truk and a stopped school bus.

In reply to xd:

Are you the guy who bought it?

I guess the issue I'm having is that there is a local store that is stocked with boxes and boxes of another technological marvel known as the "air conditioner". They would be glad to sell you a 5000 BTU model, as many as you would like, for the more-than-fair price of $79.99 USD.

So, for some unknown reason, I can purchase not only a device that blows air at me, but one that also chills it and dehumidifies it for over $200 less. That means for the $300 I would spend on a Dyson fan (and remember they START at $300 and go up to $450), I can buy one of these, be WAY more comfortable AND power it probably for a couple of seasons...or whatever else I can find to do with $200+.

Wally wrote:

Lesley wrote: Cripes. I was expecting to see this:

A couple years ago when I was driving to work that was parked out in their parking lot. I almost hit a garbage truk and a stopped school bus.

I would take as many of those as I could get for $300 a pop.

I must admit, While doing wedding registry, I put that on the list at both Target and BB&B. It is cool, and if some one else feels like buying that, be my guest.

And, unless they are drawing outside air, they (and other bathroom blowers / fans) are just turbocharging airborne poo particles onto your formally clean hands!

airborne poo particles? wouldn't a simple, yet elegant, courtesy flush remove such a hazard?

this fan doesn't seem to be worth it, but i will say that i am very happy w/ my dyson vacuum.

neon4891 wrote: I must admit, While doing wedding registry, I put that on the list at both Target and BB&B. It is cool, and if some one else feels like buying that, be my guest.

that's the great thing about registries. would i spend that much of my own money on X? hells no. will i happily enjoy it if someone else buys it for me? you bet your ass i will.

Buzz Killington wrote: this fan doesn't seem to be worth it, but i will say that i am very happy w/ my dyson vacuum.

neon4891 wrote: I must admit, While doing wedding registry, I put that on the list at both Target and BB&B. It is cool, and if some one else feels like buying that, be my guest.

that's the great thing about registries. would i spend that much of my own money on X? hells no. will i happily enjoy it if someone else buys it for me? you bet your ass i will.

Our Dyson vacuum cost less than that fan brand-spankity new.

Some outfit like Saks or whatever listed his and hers BMWs when my wife and I were planning our wedding. She added them just for grins and giggles.

If only I had known about this thing sooner. I'm sitting here in my office being absolutely bombarded by terrible wind buffeting from my box fan.

I can safely say I've never been in a situation where I needed to reach something on the other side of a fan and the only option was to stick my hand through the blades. I'm sure it's only a matter of time, though.

skruffy wrote: If only I had known about this thing sooner. I'm sitting here in my office being absolutely bombarded by terrible wind buffeting from my box fan.

Dood! $300 and you're problems are solved! What could be easier?

I don't have anything to actually add to this discussion, in fact, by the time I got here everything had already been covered.

This is why I love GRM.

As an added note: This fan could kill me if i try to play the "stop the blades with your finger" game.

Protip: The game is only for tiny desk fans or bmw fans with broken couplers.

I can't sleep without a fan that has buffety air blowing in my face.

Its a cool looking fan. I cant wait for the Chinese to copy it for 1/100 the cost...

I just saw one of those yesterday at a store. My $30 tower fan like the one pictured above works WAY better and actually is just about as quiet. Even has a remote great for in the bedroom.

Is it wrong to want to ad it to my wedding registry just so I can try and make a scale-model wind tunnel out of it?

I stick baseball cards in my box fan for extra zing.

OK, only because the GRM crowd will actually get it I will tell you a little about Dyson.

First off, 50% of what they do well is marketing, 25% is appearance/packaging and the rest is product performance.

I'm a sales rep for World Dryer, I sell against Dyson; World Dryer invented the air powered hand dryer over 80 years ago. When Dyson introduced their hand dryer they put over 3 million dollars into advertising the thing and gave away thousands of units just to get them recognized and out in the North American market, they ran an ad during the super bowl on their hand dryer for Pete sake, this was unheard of in the commerical hand dryer industry

Anyway, their hand dryer is what we refer to in the industry as a "blade dryer", it's designed to move water off the hands where most of the traditional hand dryers evaporate the majority of water off the hands. With most blade dryers there is some sort of reservoir to catch the water moved off the hands and Dyson's first model had a reservoir but they lacked any device to get rid of the stored water such as a plumbed drain or heated evaporation device; needless to say, Dyson's first hand dryers had mold problems.

Their fix was to block the reservoir which let the water move off the sides of the dryer and fall on the floor, in high trafic restrooms this caused quite a mess. I can't tell you how many Dyson hand dryers I've replaced in the last couple of year, but I'd estimate it's a couple hundred.

So that's my Dyson story, I hope you enjoyed it

P71 wrote: Is it wrong to want to ad it to my wedding registry just so I can try and make a scale-model wind tunnel out of it?

DO IT DO IT DOIT DOITDOITDOIT!!!!