OTOH, maybe he can sell a mess of them in South Korea if he can make them believe they don’t cause the “fan death” they believe regular fans do.
And a co-axial fan will spend its whole day watching cable TV.
Bravo!
I love James Lileks’ website.
It is an awesome looking fan though
I have Dyson vacuum. I would never have bought it at full price, but got it for less than $200 on Woot - for that price its been great. CHeck them out, Woot seems to have Dysons on sale about once a week.
I have used a Dyson airblade hand dryer at the airport (I think Logan?) - the air stream actually almost pulled the wedding ring off my finger (I bent the finger in time to catch it on the distal joint)!
And yes, my hands were dry afterward.
I’d like to see what his new line of spheres are going to be. Probably way overpriced as well, but I might get one.
It’s usually a good strategy. Heck, we Americans buy car insurance because a cartoon gecko has a British accent.
The very notion that one can perceive “buffeting” from the turbulence of an electric fan is absurd; the notion that this buffeting is “unsettling” is outrageous. What can they have had in mind to let this on the air. Why have they not yet taken it off? The world is so full of mysteries.
my premium vacuum cleaner is $200 cheaper and I don’t have a dust cloud changing the bag. The “cyclone” vacuum goes back to 1928 so it’s design isn’t innovative nor does the price justify the mess or cost of replacement bags.
The idea of a cooling fan costing 4 times as much as a window air conditioner seems like an attempt to sell sand in the desert. Anyone who can afford a $300 fan already has air conditioning. Anybody needing air conditioning but can’t afford it wouldn’t buy it.