No blades. No buffeting.

The blades on conventional fans chop the air before it hits you - causing unpleasant buffeting. The Dyson Air Multiplier™ fan has no blades - airflow is smooth.

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Science & Technology

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• dyson
• bladeless
• fan
• blades
• buffeting
• air
• multiplier
• airmultiplier
• inducement
• entrainment

[MisterMushy]

Oh geez, I guess helicopters got it all wrong

[1800s]

the Blades are below inside the air-intake.

so actually it does use Blades.

It would have been real ground breaking if it was some sort of magneticOscilating technology but its not.

[endimion17]

@Trike17 Exactly. I've never notice that my fan slaps me.

[MegaStingers]

Star gate ?

[StinkyCheese9999]

@1800s

How would that be groundbreaking? Miniature piezo fans (and my cheap hair clippers) already do magnetic oscillation. That can't support the pressure needed to push the air up the tube and out the ring (unless larger and less energy efficient).

[Videogamer52100]

How easy is it to clean the fan

[VBAadmin]

@djteac Forgive my ignorance, but the explanation I heard was that the closest thing to blades in this thing is the brushless DC motor replacing the (legacy) brushed motor.

[crc32ctx]

Magnetic Oscilation or not the thig is supposed to blow air. If input and output are the same the underlying technology is pointless. And I don't see how squeezing a bunch of air through a small slit justifies the $300 price tag. And unless your face is 3 feet from the fan buffeting isn't a problem.

[dimomarg]

@ToonGirlSodaPop yes. and no. the hollow cylinder of air is supposed to mobilise the air inside as well, but most of the power would be concentrated on the edges.

[20willsdude]

I have ten of those...great!!

[schadara]

Money grubbing marketing. All they did was put the fans at the bottom, then somehow try to market it like they invented new technology. That's so conniving.

[ToonGirlSodaPop]

Wouldn't that just go around your face?