We’ve been doing the ceiling fan thing all wrong for all these years. Turns out the best design for a fan blade is to twist it into the shape of a seed pod from a Sycamore tree. Spin it around at just 70 to 130 revs per minute, and you get the same airflow as a regular fan cranking its heart out at twice that speed. We’re also digging its weirdo looks, too.
You can get these in Australia, but expect this technology to spread far and wide before too long. Someday all fan blades will be made this way. Hey, somebody, pick up this blade design for a PC case fan, and then half the RPMs will equal half the noise.
Product Page [Sycamore Ceiling Fan, via Treehugger]
Icle
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 9:11 AMThat is one of the best looking fan around, with style.
toshka
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 8:02 PMYeah nice fan, except it reminds me of the one used in i-robot, maybe a lawsuit is on its way from hollywood. Not another patent infringment
Michael
Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 9:00 AMThe Sycamore Fan came first – way before the I-robot one….. first designed in 1997….
Bert
Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 10:50 PMPity about the price ($595.-)