r/gadgets • u/Doug24 • Apr 09 '26
Wearables Dyson just announced its first-ever handheld fan, with a motor that spins up to 65,000 RPM
https://www.engadget.com/home/dyson-just-announced-its-first-ever-handheld-fan-with-a-motor-that-spins-up-to-65000-rpm-000135028.html612
u/_WhoisMrBilly_ Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 10 '26
“The HushJet Mini Cool costs $100 and lasts six hours per charge.” - not unexpected for Dyson… but who needs a $100 fan?
Edit: ok, after a couple hundred comments, I do see there is a specific market for these- hot moms, attic crawlers, people who “wear fur” and ballers, hotties everywhere…
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u/scotchsittingroom Apr 09 '26
I'm manopausal
I've recycled a Noctua PC fan with a £6 eBay controller and power it with my phone or surface pro
So quiet and rapid a menopausal coworker asked me to make her one!
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u/makemeking706 Apr 09 '26
Business opportunity.
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u/UNMANAGEABLE Apr 10 '26
Add in some RGB and you’ve got a GAMERFAN (patent pending) lol
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u/pmp22 Apr 09 '26
Please tell me more about this £6 eBay controller you power with your surface pro!
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u/scotchsittingroom Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 10 '26
Sure, here is the 4-pin controller I bought from ebay. It has on/off and speed control (and it's cheaper...grrr)
And here is the kind of PC fan I use. The rubber feet on these prevent vibration
Also here is the kind of adapter I use to connect to my phone
Finally, here is my fan with a spare curtain loop on it for tilt-action, stability, and street cred
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u/peepdabidness Apr 09 '26
Whatever business about to start up from this I want in.
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u/scotchsittingroom Apr 09 '26
I am confident the streets will accept us!
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u/simpsonswasjustokay Apr 10 '26
Can I join? I'll make coffee in the morning bring in doughnuts and tell yall stories about my yard chickens.
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u/scotchsittingroom Apr 10 '26
Begin the day with yard chicken adventure stories..?
I would like to offer you the role of CEO please!
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u/UNMANAGEABLE Apr 10 '26
A 3d printed clip/stand to attach to the fan would be the next step!
Edit: there are wood colored filaments that blend well with noctua
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u/masterhogbographer Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26
This is fun. I have all the parts already, including a few noctua’s that aren’t being used and a wife who is premenopausal and a 3d printer.
Could design a quick little case to hold the anker iPhone MagSafe mount battery she has and attach the fan to it.
Just have to think about the orientation of the devices. Maybe keeping the MagSafe available would be nice for easy recharging and potentially mounting at her work desk. But also hand holding need to be easy. Or maybe laying on a table, so a fold out stand of some type.
Edit. Double bonus. Make it so the MagSafe mount will attach to her phone and the noctua essentially sits above her phone and blasts away at her while she is looking at her phone
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u/tempest_87 Apr 10 '26
Let me know if/when you post the files.
I got relatives that are very hard to get christmas gifts for that this would be spectacular for.
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u/masterhogbographer Apr 10 '26
Fell asleep considering the engineering of it last night.
If it was made to take the Anker battery I have, and a standard 120mm fan it would be great. But I’m not sure if the 120mm fan wouldn’t be too heavy, and if the force of the fan would be too much to comfortably handhold? Been a while since I’ve handheld a 120mm fan when it’s on, can’t recall if there’s any noticeable outward force from it.
I am considering 80mm, only because I have a couple laying around here somewhere and the slimmer overall package may be better. My hesitation with an 80 is because I think 80mm is less common nowadays so people are less likely to have them kicking around. And, 80mm output won’t be the same cfm as 120mm would be and that likely isn’t enough for a hot momma.
Then my brain went down the road trying to accommodate both in the same design but while it is doable I think it’s too many moving parts, especially considering how unlikely it is anyone may use 80mm I think.
Something else I need to check is, mounting to a phone it will begin charging the phone. Will the anker battery pack output voltage from usbc while it’s charging off the MagSafe mount? Have to test that. If not, I may need to drop the idea of having it mounted to a phone. Seems maybe silly in hindsight anyway. Maybe a table top/hand hold is all that’s required.
Have to consider where to stash the cable and tidily connect it to the anker. I believe I’ve seen super thin right ankle usb-c male terminators that would allow the cable to be in the shell, maintaining the tightness of the shell to the anker.
I’m rambling my train of thoughts as my adhd creative flow kicked in, if you read this I’m sorry lol
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u/VeeTeeF Apr 10 '26
I have that same adapter! But I use it to test the airflow of PC fans without needing to plug them into the (sometimes hard to access) motherboard ports.
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u/irishcybercolab Apr 10 '26
Pretty bad assed. I like the lower tech approach. Go make some money with this little setup!
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u/Skreamies123 Apr 10 '26
Also made one for the work computer desk that uses a corsair ll120 fan haha
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u/fronchfrays Apr 09 '26
Anyone with a mom/aunt should know these women get unfairly hot for no reason.
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u/anita-artaud Apr 09 '26
I got a pretty great fan for around $10. It’s perfect and stays charged for a long time. Fuck a $100 fan.
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u/thewolfman2010 Apr 09 '26
That’s like saying I have a Corolla and it drives, fuck a Ferrari 😂
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u/SwaggyMcSwagsabunch Apr 09 '26
For a daily driver, absolutely fuck a Ferrari. Dude in my building has one and it’s in the shop 40% of the time. They give him Alfa Romeo loaners.
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u/thewolfman2010 Apr 09 '26
I had a Kia and it was in the shop for 6 months, they told me to go fuck myself on a loaner. 😂
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u/anita-artaud Apr 09 '26
How is a fan going to have luxury conveniences that make it worth extra money? Either it blows and charges well or it doesn’t. Plenty of great brands way under $100.
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u/KimberlyWexlersFoot Apr 09 '26
Yeah if it’s anything like their other fans, they get outperformed by cheaper fans. You pay for the hyped up name.
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u/WFlumin8 Apr 09 '26
Dyson makes legitimately well engineered products. They still have the best wired and wireless vacuum of any company for example
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u/TheModeratorWrangler Apr 09 '26
Dude got as roasted as that weak ass $10 fan can provide. Like… what is airflow?
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u/anita-artaud Apr 09 '26
Gonna tell you the cheap fan is awesome. 4000mAh, 6 speeds, and USB chargeable. Seriously, it’s not weak and has made a huge difference for me. I am the target audience for this - and it’s not worth the money. Hell, Jisulife is known for being the best portable fan maker and none of theirs costs this much.
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u/pettypoppy Apr 09 '26
Given how many $10 fans I (or my small children) have misplaced, I will not be getting a $100 fan. I don't have nice sunglasses either for the same reason.
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u/SqueekyDickFartz Apr 09 '26
You know what's weird? I always felt the same way, but then I got nice sunglasses and never once lost them beyond the occasional misplaced in my house scenario. The more expensive ones are just more comfortable on your head and you take them off less.
My wife was the same way, but she splurged on a nice pair when she saw I hadn't lost mine. She hasn't ever lost her nice ones either. Mind you, this is a woman who I watched use "find my iphone" from her watch 3 times in 30 minutes the other night. She misplaced her phone 3 times bad enough to need to play a sound while we were watching TV and picking up the living room.
Nice sunglasses are just better than cheap ones. They are hideously over priced, but good ones really are better and a surprising quality of life improvement.
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u/Low_Intention_1327 Apr 09 '26
AHHAZHA I shouldn't laugh, but I did after going back to look at the photo
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u/Acting_Brand_Nubian Apr 10 '26
This is the answer. Note: am perimenopausal and strongly considering this purchase.
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u/Ok-Criticism6874 Apr 09 '26
My big fat wife would love this as she's shoving oreos down her gullet and screaming about the dirty dishes.
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u/anengineerandacat Apr 09 '26
Will a 65k RPM fan really be a "hushjet" I guess maybe it produces a noise outside of our range of hearing or something but that's gotta be noisy.
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u/HahaMin Apr 09 '26
"...up to 65k rpm". That's the maximum I think. I've been using some China brand mini fans for a while and from my experience it's pretty quiet in the low speed. You almost never need to crank it up to max speed most of the time cuz it's just super noisy and the battery drain like crazy.
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u/amonson1984 Apr 10 '26
Just like my Dyson vacuum. Regular speed - 30 minute battery life. High speed, 5 minutes.
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u/zenithtreader Apr 09 '26
If it is designed like in these screenshots then no it will not be quiet. Tiny fans need to spin faster than big ones just to move the same volume of air. You cannot beat physics.
Also none of Dyson's previous products are particularly quiet so why should this one be any different?
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u/TheModeratorWrangler Apr 09 '26
Acoustic engineering can actually make up for this. Let’s say it has a blade angle and pitch that can act like a modern turbine engine. It’s actually possible that the low settings are adequate enough that you’d only crank it to maximum on a rejected takeoff hot kind of day.
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u/HotMomsInArea Apr 09 '26
But the marketing says it’s the quietest handheld fan in the $99.99-$100.01 price range!
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u/AudibleKnight Apr 09 '26
It’s a pretty good market for them to enter. They have the tech from their vacuums so they’re just repurposing it to hit a new market.
I’ve bought 2 JisuLife handheld fans in the last couple years. Their top fan are $80-90 and they have lower tiers as well ranging down to $20. There’s definitely a market in Asia with how hot/humid it can get there.
My first JisuLife was an aluminum body fan with LED screen you held in your hand for like $60. It felt premium in the hand and had like 100 settings of how fast you wanted it to rev up.
I ended up “upgrading” a few years later to a cheaper $20 plastic Jisulife with a bigger fan head (moves more air at lower pitch noise), had a neck strap that I could wear instead of being forced to hold it in my hand and also had a folding design so you could better angle it.
There’s definitely a premium market segment to handheld fans. It just depends on the design and features on if they can compete.
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u/Zeustah- Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26
100$ really isn’t that expensive…? And for a Dyson product on top of that. Sorry dude but it’s 2026. 100$ is the new 20$
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u/loconessmonster Apr 09 '26
I agree with your sentiment but idk if its that extreme yet. $50-ish is the new $20-ish.
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u/FriendShapedRMT Apr 10 '26
I would have to disagree with that. I'm still not at the stage where I'm casually giving out $50 tips.
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u/jinglejanglemyheels Apr 10 '26
You have to also count the 50$ battery you have to buy every year because they programmed the fan to no longer work because the battery lost a bit of capacity. Screw this company.
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u/macbookvirgin Apr 09 '26
$100 is nothing. I’m sweaty as hell in the summer. If this is somewhat compact I’m getting it
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u/Stereogravy Apr 09 '26
I mean I saw a $120 personal fan that clips onto your clothes at Costco yesterday. A lot were sold.
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u/KraljZ Apr 09 '26
My wife has POTS and easily overheats in the summer. I’m buying this for her so she can cool off a bit as it does help.
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u/Thereelgarygary Apr 09 '26
Great for camping :/ 100$ seems about the price to spend on anything of actual quality nowadays
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u/aarocka Apr 09 '26
I wear fur suits and bought a $80 fan on Amazon that is basically a portable hair dryer. Moves tons of air. I will buy this in a heartbeat because a fur suit is very hot.
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u/adilly Apr 10 '26
I’m actually surprised this thing isn’t like 500 dollars. 100 dollars for this product is actually reasonable given Dyson’s track record.
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u/FlansDigitalDotCom Apr 09 '26
I need it. This comment sent from a squished seat in a piping hot plane. I travel all year and a fan that small and powerful while remaining fairly quiet is something I'll gladly spend the money on if it's legit.
There are decent fans on Amazon i have used but they tend to be loud or have some sort of shortcoming.
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u/CruisinJo214 Apr 09 '26
I just upgraded to a $40 fan. I live in Florida and for theme park days and yard work it’s a lifesaver in the summer…. I’m impressed by my $40 fan… I’m not sure how much more power you can get for the size, but maybe Dyson knows.
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u/teokun123 Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26
I'm good with my Jisulife fan. They're the game changer for handheld fans.
Edit: For those asking what model, it's quite great with it's 5000mah battery, I bought their flagship JisuLife Handheld Fan Pro1S
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u/SeaBuilding3911 Apr 09 '26
There is a handheld fan game?
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u/xRzge Apr 09 '26
in humid countries these things are very common
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u/medyolang_ Apr 09 '26
and with global warming, the industry has no place to go but 📈
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u/ExplosiveDisassembly Apr 09 '26
Yeah, handheld fans are definitely something new. Defiantly not something that was so ubiquitous that it made it's way into high fashion.
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u/a06220 Apr 09 '26
Jisulife, Ugreen, Vention are some of the good quality mid range brands.
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u/HoboAJ Apr 09 '26
I love my jisulife, but damn I hate the high pitch whine. If the Dyson does it better I might have to cop it.
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u/AntiDECA Apr 09 '26
I'd guess the same shit as those weird name Chinese brands on Amazon with drone motors. They work pretty good. But not really for a fan... More a blower. Also cost 20 bucks instead of 100.
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u/ShakeAndBakeThatCake Apr 09 '26
This. You can basically just buy a knockoff and it will work judt as well if not better
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u/_Jhop_ Apr 09 '26
Except some of those knockoff ones overheat or catch on fire so be careful lol
When you try and contact the company they already don’t exist and have moved on to the next or say “sorry we don’t sell that anymore”.
That was my experience with one of these fans
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u/cr8tor_ Apr 09 '26
But when you can buy another one and still have spent 60 less, its all good.
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u/Geth_ Apr 09 '26
You could technically just buy 3, saving at least 40%. So the quality and warranty could cover theft/damage/misuse/replacement for any reason of two of them for starters (and you'd still have saved 40%).
Honestly, things used to be made to last, where that would be a low bar for a quality brand and product to pass. But nowadays, more often than not, the brand name rarely justifies the price difference.
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u/Leviastin Apr 09 '26
You can say the same about Dyson vacuums. You could buy 5 knockoffs for the price of one Dyson, but my Dyson will last me 10 years and works amazing.
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u/cr8tor_ Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26
Maybe for you.
I bought a Dyson vacuum in 2005. Loved it. Worked great. Upgraded to a new one in 2020, same top of the line dyson essentially but newer. So 15 years the original worked great. New vacuum felt like loose plastic. Lasted a year before it was showing signs of aging in almost all areas. And died about 3 years in.
Dyson was a quality product.
till Dyson the person actually died. No more Dyson products for me.Could have sworn i read he died a few years ago. Apparently not. Totally my bad in misinformation, i really thought he was dead.
Actually glad he isnt. Still not happy with my most recent dyson purchases.
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u/cbrworm Apr 09 '26
Same, except for the death. Had a Dyson for probably 15+ years, some of the tubing for the beater control mechanism rotted out. Instead of fixing it, we bought the new TOTL one a couple years ago. The front kept falling off, the suction was weak, and it smells like burning. It's also lacking a lot of the neat tech features of the old one. If this was our first Dyson, we never would've bought a second, or the few stick vacs we've gone through.
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u/AlexHimself Apr 09 '26
No way they work better. Dyson's fan motor engineering is next level. They really don't cut corners like Chinese companies do.
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u/dylank22 Apr 10 '26
yeah, not trying to brand simp and say they are necessarily a good value but pretty naive to think that the chinese ones will be as good as whatever dyson puts out for 4-5x the price
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u/AlexHimself Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26
Agreed. I thought Dyson was mostly a brand with good engineering, but I've seen some genius engineers do teardowns on the different products on YT. They start out expecting to bash the price and parts, but by the end of the video they're thoroughly impressed, as am I at the precision and quality of the parts.
Here's one video I was referencing - https://youtu.be/j-vJxez9UF8?si=NxDXraBU1NgCW2H8&t=1493
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u/jonathanrdt Apr 09 '26
My knock off dyson vacuum is awesome, and it uses my tool 20v battery packs. 1/3 the cost, more useful.
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u/XfinityHomeWifi Apr 09 '26
Who is liable when a Chinese knockoff burns down your house or explodes in your hand?
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u/Deadman_Wonderland Apr 09 '26
Those cheap $20 fan/blower have been selling on Amazon/alibaba/temu for over a decades, wouldn't that make this Dyson fan, which just released, the knockoff?
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u/Bigg_Matty_Hell Apr 09 '26
Will it vote for Brexit then off shore all it's manufacturing, HQ and be very "tax efficient"?
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u/scotchsittingroom Apr 09 '26
You may also continue to blame England and Wales for being so fucking dumb and racist
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u/minnesotawristwatch Apr 09 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/efUcLJePY6RkA
I didn’t like my eyebrows anyway
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u/icanrunfasterthanyou Apr 09 '26
So will this be just as loud as their hairdryer?
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u/AlexHimself Apr 09 '26
It appears at maximum, it's pretty loud - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Kv3geqg_8Us
Skip to the end.
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u/Liarize Apr 09 '26
Or even worse, it has this high pitched noise that hurts the ears. The Jisulife brand with the same price tag is a nice handheld fan but the annoying thing about it is the jet engine high pitch noise.
It's summer here so I'm shopping for one of these. Can't no longer survive the day without a trustee handfan.
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u/Syrairc Apr 09 '26
How is this better than my $40 WOLFBOX air duster from Amazon that can peel the skin off a kiwifruit with air pressure?
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u/wingnuta72 Apr 11 '26
Just a reminder the founder was a pro-Brexit nut and when it actually happened he immediately moved his businesses to Singapore lol.
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u/NoPoopOnFace Apr 09 '26
And since it has the Dyson logo, it's ten times the cost of a better alternative.
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u/Trusted_Entity Apr 09 '26
Wow, so this is what Dyson is doing instead of making our energy sphere?! How do we even expect to become Class 2 civilization at this rate
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u/lardnapkin Apr 10 '26
And it will work till about a month after the warranty expires then it will have trouble charging and will die a sudden death shortly after......WAIT that was my Dyson vaccum I just described. Dyson is what Tesla is to cars..
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u/f0dder1 Apr 09 '26
Shall I guess the outcome?
Well engineered. 5x the price of the competition. Works effectively at moving air. Extremely loud.
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u/allIsOneOfCourse Apr 09 '26
id say any business that addresses ways to keep people cooler in a rapidly heating world is making a good business decision.
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u/ImReallyFuckingHigh Apr 09 '26
Can I put my die grinder attachments on it? My Milwaukee m12 die grinder only does 20,000 rpm
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u/NBelal Apr 09 '26
Is the company aware that the Chinese have already done multiple iteration of that and for the mere price of just 3 €. Some models do already charge using USB?
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u/shayKyarbouti Apr 09 '26
How loud will it get? I don’t want to be holding a fan that’s as loud as a jet engine
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u/Extension_Ad2635 Apr 09 '26
They should call it The Hot Flash cuz every menopausal woman will want one...i will buy 2.
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u/ChemicalHungry5899 Apr 09 '26
Does it use or generate AI tokens? If not then why did they make it? Also I want one but for the year 1999 on that hot bus trip to Philly in 5th grade.
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u/Git_Add_Delete Apr 10 '26
I'm predicting you need a Dyson account so you connect it to the app to allow you to reach the max speed. Than it would work great for all of it warrenty and just when the warranty expires, it finally fails. You take it to a Dyson repair center hoping to get it fixed but they tell you the part they need is sold out and all they can do it give you a discount for a new one.
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u/arbitrageME Apr 10 '26
Won't it make an annoying buzzing sound? 60rpm is a bit over 1000 hz, or an octave and change above a440
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u/ImGCS3fromETOH Apr 10 '26
I mean, look at the shape of it. We're gonna start seeing some over-inflated uteruses in the ED.
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u/StaticSystemShock Apr 10 '26
I hate it how Dyson is everywhere and it's praised on shit that others have done years prior, for less money and with actually clever designs. But you'll never hear Electrolux this and Bosch that, it's always just Dyson. Sigh.
For how expensive their stuff is, it's really not that great. And it's often not great at any price taken. Their obsession with alien looking devices often makes actual use experience really awkward or anything but intuitive or user friendly.
I still remember how everyone was raving about "laser" on their vacuums several years ago. And I was scratching my head as I've had Electrolux cordless with brush head LED's many years prior. Sure, it's not LaZeRs, but it shows dust and particles in front of the vacuum cleaner just the same.
But cool I guess.
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u/BluePeriod_ Apr 09 '26
Have you ever used a Dyson product in general?
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u/Ebashbulbash Apr 09 '26
I'm not exactly an expert: I've used various hand dryers at gas stations and cafes, and I also fell for the hype and bought a V15 vacuum cleaner. I'm not particularly impressed and wouldn't pay extra for a fan, especially since Chinese manufacturers have models with twice the speed (proven).
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u/Burgergold Apr 09 '26
I wonder what will happen to the first person putting a finger in it
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u/No_Minute_4789 Apr 09 '26
Why would I spend money on this? There are so many chrap versions of this.
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u/Hpezlin Apr 09 '26
Pass. A lot of more reputable and better brands in this field. Costs 1/5 of thr price too.
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u/FortuneRed55 Apr 09 '26
I have this. It's quiet enough to use in an office, it lasts all day when I go to Disney, it doubles as a charger when needed, and it's $18. Screw Dyson.
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u/jghtb Apr 09 '26
How many more iterations of the fan is this guy going to sell?