Gadgets

ColorWare’s Latest Victim Needs No Introduction: The Dyson Air Multiplier

By now, you’ve realised that ColorWare likes coating beautiful products with strange, ghastly colours. At least they’re colours you get to choose, mind you. Purchasing Dyson’s fan through them costs $US450, but send in your own for $US150. [ColorWare]


January 5, 2011
Geek Out

Wooden Cuckoo Clock Disguises The Reason You’re So Cool

I love this wooden fan from Dutch designer Luc Van Hoeckel, who used the original Black Forest design of cuckoo clocks to create a self-propelling fan. Once the weight-toggles are dropped, the fan starts churning. Beautiful. [Hoeckel via Designboom]


December 30, 2010
Entertainment

Well, That’s One Way To Stop Your PC From Overheating

My new favourite blog, Misuse.su, is like a Russian Fail Blog for the repurposes (and misuse) of products. From using a laptop as a nutcracker, to a power-drill as a foosball table handle, it’s full of craziness. [Misuse via Core77]


July 24, 2010
Gadgets

Room-Sized Dyson Air Multiplier AM03 Review: The Definition Of Luxury

We said the original, desk-sized Dyson Air Multipler is an opulent but fantastic feat of engineering and excess, one that you’d feel guilty for purchasing but love afterwards. The Dyson AM03 is the same, but might be more justifiable.


June 22, 2010
Gadgets

Dyson’s Fans Multiply To Three

Gizmodo AU

Dyson’s air multiplier fans were one of the best looking gadgets to hit shelves last year, but they were let down by one fatal flaw – not everyone needs a desk fan. So it’s great that Dyson have just announced that they’re boosting the range to include a tower fan and a pedestal fan model.


May 30, 2010
Computing

The Stupid Way Of Making A DIY Desk Fan

It’s getting hot and you desperately need a little fan to fit onto your desk. You could either go buy one or you could finally do something with that old PC of yours and tear out its power supply fan.


May 26, 2010

What Dyson Does With All Those Unsold Bladeless Fans

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Maybe moving $US300 fans is harder than Dyson expected, or perhaps Dyson’s engineers are just flat out of things to do. Either way, this Rube Goldberg-ian balloon course, made from God knows how many Air Multiplier bladeless fans, is mesmerising.


May 10, 2010

How To Turn Your iPhone Into A Laser, Fan Or Torch

When the heat of summer arrives all those iPhone doubters will be left sweltering and swooning when you pull out your iPHONE FAN. Dutch company HMB TEC has created peripherals that plug into the headphone jack, controlled by special apps.


May 9, 2010
Gadgets

Conjoined Fan Born With Two Heads

Doctors aren’t hopeful about their prospects for separating the fledgling fan, which was born recently in Germany and is named Double Circulator, but it seems to be doing pretty well, all things considered:


February 10, 2010

This Bladeless Fan Makes Me Wish For A Hot-Hot-Hot Summer

Hate having a bunch of blades whizzing in circles above your head? Yeah, me too. That’s why I love the idea of cooling off in the gentle breeze produced by the bladeless LoftWing ceiling fan.