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The Airsketcher, which looks the same as ordinary fans, actually has an astonishing function that it can automatically “follow” the users and bring them with cool air. How? Because there’s a small-sized webcam built inside the fan, which can track a specially-made flag so as to locate the users. Besides, the fan can also recognize different symbols and act accordingly. Therefore the users can easily switch on/off or adjust the speed by showing certain symbols to the fan. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Why do we always say that all creative designs have life as their source? You’ll soon get the answer after checking out the following pictures. Each of them shows a faucet designed by Canada-based Fluid Faucets, as well as common things like penguin, rainbow, violin and Doric column—they’re rightly where the design inspirations come from. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Designed by Alexander Ignon, the Loft Wing Ceiling Fan has brought us back to those old days when we were using palm-leaf fans to cool ourselves. The dramatic ceiling fan is aimed at both small living rooms and other large public buildings where energy-saving and artistic products are rather welcomed. The high quality German geared motor not only makes the fan to work quietly, but needs only 15watts of electricity to cool out the room. To top off the great design, Loft Wing Ceiling Fan’s dimension and color can be made by request. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Could a window fan without blades still be regarded as a fan? I really doubt that because it’s difficult to imagine such a fan work. But if you stick your hand through the loop, you’ll immediately understand how it works. In fact, the air is in-taken by the bottom grills and then transported up, so you could feel the air in front of the ring. Cool and I kind of love it!

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The pristine fan, with a complicated wire cage outside the simple fan, presents an alternative furniture design by using the contrast design concept. Made from a wire cage, a motor and an industrial strap, the fan can protect users well from sudden hurt.

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What impresses us most in the movies that show the daily life of the British aristocracy is the magnificent feather folding fan, which is also an elegant hand held accessory to a lady of quality in modern times. As it integrates the traditional crafted fan with solar charged light technology, the solar folding fan is therefore a delicate decoration which can glow in the evening.

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As an outstanding young man in design field, Maarten Baas is well known for his alternative aesthetics, such as the clay fans. With clay shrouded on the metal shelves, Maarten Baas also makes some surface treatment on them, which results the fans to show a totally different kind of visual effect from its mental essence.

Although we have tried our best to avoid wasting energy, air conditioner is still necessary for those like to sleep between linen sheets. Somebody may prefer fan as an alternative, however, because the electric fan won’t change the indoor temperature, sweat is a problem.

This bedfan can be clipped at the base of your bed and circulates air from under the bed into your sheets to make you cooler and sweat free at all night. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Thermaltake BigTyp VP is a unique fan. It can provide extra cooling for VGA and RAM with a multi-directional satellite fan. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It seems that fan and clock will not have any relationship. However, Stanislav Katz designed this fan clock whose sector between hour and minute is changed into a foldable fan. [Read the rest of this entry...]

With these two gadgets, your office gonna be more romantic. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Different from ordinary motherboard fan, this innovative product from MSI is driven by harvesting heat from the processor rather than electricity.

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Exercising gonna make you stronger, but much energy is lost in this process. This Cycool could cool you by your own energy. Although just a mechanic construction could directly power the fan, a electronic one could be controlled easier. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This interactive system allows you to generate a windstorm just by breathing! The hug fans will rotate according to the tiny ones. So, what you should do is just blow to breath to the tiny fans. [Read the rest of this entry...]

These two unique designs are inspired from dandelion. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Shaped like a nautilus shell, this light weight Nauti Fan is fairly fashionable. Its leggs allow it to be positioned in amy different orientations and directions when placed on desk. In addition, you can also take it with you in outdoors. You gotta be more stylish. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This weird capsule is actually a USB personal fan. Just plug it into USB port, you can be cooler in summer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Wearing a fan like this on your neck, and startup the fan, you gonna have extra cooling in summer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Adding a fan at the end of pen, you will be cooler while writing in summer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

With 5MB built-in memory, this Fan could show 128 colorful frames while running. So, it’s just like a Art. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Different from standard ceiling fan, this Enigma Fan has only one slice. It comes with a halogen light and could be controlled via remote. [Read the rest of this entry...]

With series of blades rotating, this fan could generate wind within 360 degree. Unfortunately, it asks for $239.