Are you the sweaty type? Does it give you anxiety knowing you’ll inevitably end up with a giant sweat stain in your armpits at some point during the day? Don’t laugh, the struggle is real for millions of people. Mind you, this proposed cure might actually be a little more embarrassing than the problem it seeks to remedy. The ‘Under the Armpit Cooling Device’ (Waki no Shita Kura in Japanese) is a small battery-powered fan that clips to your clothing and blasts a stream of air that should help keep the sweat away. It’ll keep working between 5 and 9 hours, depending on which of the three speeds you select. Charging is accomplished via USB, or through an optional portable battery pack. It’s about $40 for the pair and is a real product you can actually buy now. Whether you should, well, that’s a different story altogether.
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Buying a 3D printer is all fun and games until you realize you’re running out of fun things to print. Now and then, however, we see something cool, like this Dremel Devil. It’s a plastic fan inside a cylinder, and it’s meant to be launched off a Dremel rotary tool. If done right, you’ll see this little toy soar up to 200 feet up in the air.
It’ll require a little bit of trial and error to figure out just how much pressure to use when inserting the Dremel Devil in the adapter, but a small learning curve shouldn’t keep anyone from having fun with this for at least a day or two. The file is free on the Thingiverse.
The only thing worse than getting bonked on the head by falling objects is having a little sweat on the brow while it happens. Seriously, nothing is worse! Nothing. So keep your head both safe and cool with the Kuchofuku Air-Conditioned Helmet. This helmet has what looks like a dangling fan in a bag over the back of the neck. The battery powered fan can cool your head by up to 44 degrees, allegedly.
Coming from Japan (if you couldn’t tell by the Japanese writing!), I’m guessing that this helmet probably doesn’t exactly meet US safety standards. And despite the “air conditioned” in the name, I’m fairly certain it’s just a fan in there (can anyone read Japanese? leave a comment!) But if you’re in a hardhat required situation where there’s little chance of anything actually falling on your head, then stay cool.
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Your eyes are not deceiving you Padawan, that is in fact a legit Darth Vader Fan. A deluxe one at that. What makes it deluxe? We don’t know and we’re not going to argue with the Dark Lord of the Sith here, if Vader says it’s deluxe, then yes it’s deluxe. The fan depicts Darth fighting an unseen Luke Skywalker on Cloud City. It plugs into your USB port or AC via a USB plug adapter. Huge fan of Vader.
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It’s getting to the point where every single home furnishing will be connected and controllable through smartphones, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. We already have smart locks, and smart smoke detectors, so why not add smart ceiling fans to that list? The Haiku Fan with SenseME technology connects to your WiFi, which allows you to control it via your smartphone. Add to that an infrared motion detector, a thermometer and a hygrometer (for humidity) and you’ve got a fan that knows when to speed up or slow down all by itself. It’ll start up as you enter the room, and adjust its speed based on your preferences and current conditions, which you set through an app. It’ll wind down as the night falls, while a special “Sleep Mode” slowly lowers the air speed as you fall asleep. There’s even an alarm mode that’ll try to wake you up with a combination of air, lights and sounds.
Unfortunately, we’re looking at a high-end ceiling fan, which means a high-end price. It’s $1,045 for the fan with SenseME tech, and $900 for the same fan without any of the connected features. That means you’re paying a $150 premium for the SenseME technology, which isn’t that much more when you’re already considering a $900 ceiling fan purchase. But for anyone else, well, turning a knob isn’t that hard, is it?
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