I wouldn’t pay a plugged nickle for that thing. Scares me shitless.
IMO, the first question should be how much a fan is worth to you. Period. The second question is whether there is a more economical alternative.
So I take it you drive a Kia with no air conditioning? Only the desperately poor and the most skin-flintish people in the world look for the absolute cheapest solution to a particular problem. For example, I find fans tacky. Even if I could install a fan for $30 bucks, I’d much, much rather add a central air conditioner to my existing HVAC system for $2000 just to avoid having tacky fans. If I couldn’t afford $2000 for an A/C, but could afford $350 for a non-tacky fan, I’d go for the non-tacky fan.
Dude. Not spending money on frivolities such as $350 desk fans is how one becomes WEALTHY.
FTR, I drive a 2004 Toyota Sienna, which I bought for $28,000 in December '03. It’s cost me approximately $200 per month to drive (assuming I could sell it today for 10% less than its reported Blue Book value), which I believe is as cheap as I could have driven a Kia, after resale value and lifetime maintenance costs are considered. It’s gotten me from Point A to Point B with no quarrels for nearly 8 years now. What a stellar buy!
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For example, I find fans tacky. Even if I could install a fan for $30 bucks, I’d much, much rather add a central air conditioner to my existing HVAC system for $2000 just to avoid having tacky fans. If I couldn’t afford $2000 for an A/C, but could afford $350 for a non-tacky fan, I’d go for the non-tacky fan.
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If you spend $350 on a desk fan, it’s not a stretch to figure out why you can’t afford the $2000 air conditioner.
As far as the coolness factor goes, I can’t begin to address that because I have no coolness barometer for fans. I’m rather amused that other people do.
Hello everyone. My name is drewtwo99, and I am a survivor of buffeting. I was buffeted by a large box fan in 2004, but through extreme perserverence, and the love of my friends and family, I am making it through each day as a stronger individual. Thank you. takes a seat
We’re not the demographic Dyson’s selling to.
(full disclosure: I have a Dyson Vacuum)
It would be worth it to me if the blades didn’t get soiled. When the design first came out I thought there were no blades and was pretty excited. Since then I’ve discovered that the blades are really in the outer housing and they will get just as gunky as my $20 fan.
Fan gunk is a pet peeve of mine. Most fans are not “clean-friendly” in that you have to disassemble the damn thing from stem to stern to get to all of the dust. Every single spoke has to be cleaned inside and out. Ugh. Why not make a sealed motor that I can just plop in the shower and hose it off when I want to clean it?
Well, yeah, if you’re not already wealthy or at least of enough means that $350 be not all that important to you. That’s what obfusciatrist meant by saying,
But you came back and said,
…which makes it sound like the only consideration should be price and function. In a wealthy society, form and art and pleasure are equally (and often more) important.
Me too, I think the biggest problem with fans is cleaning them. Current fans are ok because you can totally disassemble them (grills, blades). The Air Multiplier looks even HARDER to clean because it’s not meant to be opened. I’m waiting to see if mine gets dirty, or the dirt gets left on the casing (the intake holes get quite dusty).
The fact you can’t do the Darth Vader voice with it proves it’s not worth the cheap Chinese plastic it’s made from.
I would think that a Dyson Sphere would cost a little more than $350, considering they envelope an entire star…
You all can keep your Dyson’s. I’ll stick with my Vornado I got off Woot for 25 bucks. No worries about buffeting whin the fan is 20 feet away, everything smooths out into a nice smooth wind by then.
the dyson website says small to largish room. won’t give a numberish. the big sell is that is will evenly heat the room because it moves from side to side. heaters under 399.99 also move from side to side.
the only advantage i can see is that you could possibly train small animals to leap through the “hoop”.
I saw one on display in a store, and thought the cool factor was relatively high, but I couldn’t justify the price either. The buffetting effect on a regular blade fan doesn’t bother me, and I ended up buying a desk fan for $10. Suited me perfectly.
How does the Dyson fan work? Like a hair dryer, sort of?
More at the link.
Well, it is worth it if you have to transport carefully balanced helium balloons.
Try THAT with your conventional fan!!!
I love this
This is a cleverly embedded suggestion that you actually DO try to duplicate this.
Some of those setups used 40 or 50 fans. 
I’m sure the star is sold separately. They’re always trying to nickle and dime you.
Not to mention all the solar winds buffeting you.