# A new kind of air conditioner. Hapless hype or wildly useful?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 2, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634 "2025-08-02T22:46:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/1 "2025-08-02T22:46:50Z")
Yeah, this isn’t G.Q. material.
I keep seeing ads on my social media for the Qinux Breezamax. For reasons I cannot discern, I cannot embed the hyperlink in here. WTF.
Lemme try old school here.
> **[Qinux BreezaMax](https://breezamaxstore.com/?widipub_id=5bc9d0cfef28645ab122d4f2&wtrd_offer_id=685be245f50261d90e05cabb&wtrd_offer_pids=685be28053397cf2450260a3&wtrd_offer_lids=685be28053397cf2450260a4&wtrd_subPubId=22729942756&wtrd_subPubName=22729942756&gad_source=2&gad_campaignid=22729942756&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIo4imv5ntjgMV001CBx2EYxOPEAEYASAAEgLlmfD_BwE)**
>
> Quiet, powerful, and bladeless...The fan everyone's after this summer — Get yours before it sells out!
Reviews on the InterWebs are useless. So I turn to our astute and technically savvy Dopers. It this the Emperor’s New A.C. or does this thing work and draw a fraction of my window A.C. unit??
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/2 "2025-08-02T22:51:54Z")
I can’t see anything at that link that talks at all about how it works, that is, how it cools the air. This, along with my BS meter, leads me to think it is, well, BS.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/3 "2025-08-02T22:53:54Z")
There are a lot of devices on the market that are just small swamp coolers. These basically work by turning hot, dry air into cooler, humid air. This works, if your air is already dry, but the small ones don’t work very well, certainly not for anyone but the person they’re right next to and pointed directly at.
This particular product, though, from what I can tell from a quick search, doesn’t even do that. It’s just a fan.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/4 "2025-08-02T22:54:01Z")
It doesn’t say _how_ it cools.
Is it a traditional A/C with Freon or such?
Is it an evaporative cooler?
How does something that small work?
Save your money.
ETA: They’re offering 50% off right out the gate.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/5 "2025-08-02T22:56:51Z")
All those company logos scrolling across?
None of them link to anything.
At the bottom of the page are a number of payment options. None of them link to anything.
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### Author:  [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/6 "2025-08-02T22:59:08Z")
Given what @running_coach just pointed out, and the lack of any mechanism noted for the cooling, I’d move past “hapless hype” and into “scam”. Hapless hype is the Chillwell and like mini-swamp coolers, where, yeah, technically while they have water, ice and a useful climate, _could_ briefly cool a _small_ area, this looks like nothing but scam advertising, and all you’ll get is a quiet fan if anything at all.
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### Author:  [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/7 "2025-08-02T22:59:26Z")
It’s a scam. It’s a cheap USB-powered fan without even any evaporative cooling. Definitely not an air conditioner.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKE_uEIhhjE)
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/8 "2025-08-02T23:01:02Z")
@robby
👍 👍 👍 👍
I hadn’t even gone looking for reviews.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/9 "2025-08-02T23:06:17Z")
On the [“About Us”](https://breezamaxstore.com/about?lang=en) page:
Since the Breezus logo is there, you would think it’s about the company.
Wrong.
> Ecomerzpro is the reference platform where to get the maximum results for online sales, where the best and most powerful advertisers meet, including the latest and latest trends with the largest and most relevant publishers of the online ecosystem.
>
> All this with the best technology and using the most effective and innovative formats, allow us to achieve results that you have never been able to imagine.
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/10 "2025-08-02T23:08:51Z")
\*\*“Suckah”.
Ahhhhh well. I’ll turn away from Alchemy and return to the warm slightly dangerous Illuminati instead.
Like a good Doper.\*\*
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/11 "2025-08-02T23:24:52Z")
It’s bladeless.
Whats moves the air?
And why does being bladeless make it cool the air better?
It’s battery powered.
How long does it last?
It says installation needs no tools.
How does it mount to a wall?
It refreshes the air.
Filters? It doesn’t say.
They claim over 500,000 customers. _Happy_ customers.
ICANN shows a registration date of 2025-06-24
Barely 5 weeks ago.
Expiration term is only a year.
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### Author:  [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/12 "2025-08-03T01:23:06Z")
Your wallet will be lighter, so you will generate less body heat carrying it around.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/13 "2025-08-03T01:46:47Z")
It’s a small heater. And 100% efficient, like any resistive heater. It won’t heat very much, since it’s just waste heat from the fan and from air friction, but nevertheless it converts all of the energy in its battery into heat.
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### Author:  [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2025, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/14 "2025-08-03T07:46:23Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> I can’t see anything at that link that talks at all about how it works, that is, how it cools the air.
Au contraire, mon frère. Read it again. The website is quite upfront about how it works. The very first bullet point under **Qinux BreezaMax Features** says it uses **CryoFlux® Technology.** You know, like a graphics card. Or something. Duh!
(I’ve also heard that it’s powered by Brawndo\* but I have no cite for that so… caveat emptor)
\*It’s got electrolytes!
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2025, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/15 "2025-08-03T12:23:29Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> It’s bladeless.
> Whats moves the air?
Total WAG, having not heard of this until just now when I clicked on this thread, maybe it’s an ionic breeze. It certainly wouldn’t be very powerful, but that weird ozone smell might trick people into thinking it’s doing something.
Someone should suggest this to BigCliveDotCom. This is exactly the stuff he likes to take apart and show us why, at best, it does nothing at all and, at worst, the shoddy design means some exposed part has the ability to become live.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2025, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/16 "2025-08-03T12:25:56Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> Total WAG, having not heard of this until just now when I clicked on this thread, maybe it’s an ionic breeze. -
Given the name of the product, I think you’re on to something there.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/17 "2025-08-03T12:32:25Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> Given the name of the product, I think you’re on to something there.
Honestly, that was my thinking. Something about the name made me think it’s an ionic breeze type thing. However, I think when they say “bladeless” what they mean is “has blades”. An honest mistake, surely.
Assuming [this](https://www.amazon.com/Breezamax-Portable-Scorching-Humidity-Instantly/dp/B0FDW89DGR?th=1)is the same product, I see a squirrel cage (centrifugal fan) and I’m guessing they’re suggesting that doesn’t have blades. Maybe?
[ ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71JSfkYcTwL._AC_SL1500_.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/18 "2025-08-03T12:48:58Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> Since the Breezus logo is there, you would think it’s about the company.
> Wrong.
>
> > Ecomerzpro
Ecomerzpro seems to be a drop shipper and/or fulfillment center. They probably have similar pages set up for other products they sell as well.
I think it’s safe to assume all the good ‘reviews’ were seeing are paid for by them as well.
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2025, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/19 "2025-08-03T12:54:21Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#):
>
Yeah. Worth a quick glance:
> **[Ecomerzpro is rated "Average" with 2.8 / 5 on Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/ecomerzpro.net)**
>
> Do you agree with Ecomerzpro's TrustScore? Voice your opinion today and hear what 2,700 customers have already said.
I am particularly intrigued by this comment:
> For the purchased price they could have included some lubricant with the unit
Hm. Which way to read that …..? 😉
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### Author:  [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-kind-of-air-conditioner-hapless-hype-or-wildly-useful/1021634/20 "2025-08-03T15:49:44Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> I’m guessing they’re suggesting that doesn’t have blades.
It doesn’t. It has Vertical Impellor Vanes.
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