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Dyson Air Multiplier

Dyson Air Multiplier desktop cooler

Fan-boys' delight?

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Review Dyson, famous for its innovative vacuum cleaners and industrial hand dryers, has seemingly combined the two designs to create its first desk fan, the Dyson Air Multiplier.

Dyson Air Multiplier

Cock-a-hoop: Dyson's Air Multiplier

Being Dyson, impressive aesthetics are to be expected and this unique design doesn’t disappoint. Despite looking like an oversized TV aerial, adept for sucking up a Channel 5 signal in remote areas of Scotland, the appearance is a refreshing change from convention.

The fact I can put my hand through it without losing a finger or two only adds to the novelty.

With a small footprint and the huge space left by the lack of clunky blade covers, it looks fantastic on a desk, taking up minimal amounts of room. Only the cheap-feeling, silver-sprayed plastic casing lets the look down.

It's nothing massively groundbreaking though. Revamped with a modern feel, all the standard features of a fan are here. There's a button to regulate oscillation, a dial for output strength and the base can be tilted back and forth. What did you expect?

Dyson Air Multiplier

No danger to digits

Still, I haven't had my hands on a fan this flashy since I was backstage at a Snoop Dogg gig. But we all know it isn't how they look, it's how they blow, and the Dyson is no exception.

Must be great fun ...

... if you're a fly. One minute you're just buzzing around, annoying people. The next you've been caught in the vortex and you're shooting along at warp 9. I would expect that once word (or is that "the buzz") gets out, they'll come from miles around to have a go.

Could you use it to fire sponge balls at other people, too?

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More wind!

If you put one in front of the other would it have 15 x 15 effect? In fact could you put a chain of them together and use it to fire balls at people? In fact Is this what the LHC is - a big ring of Dysons?

Megaphone - cos Bart from The Simpsons did the same thing with these.

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Actually

...I quite like the Airblade. Seems to do what it claims quite neatly.

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Haven't we seen this sort of thing before?

So, we have a product that boasts innovation, does the same job as other products (but in a different way), looks a lot prettier and costs over twice as much.

Shouldn't this be the iFan, or something??

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Oi!

Don't forget the Henry --

A vacuum cleaner that can suck plaster off of walls, tumble down a flight of stairs while on with no breaks, cracks or even the motor skipping a beat.

Cleaning firms don't use them 'cos they are cheap - it's 'cos they can withstand the punishment from contract cleaners.

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