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I was greeted this morning by the photo below, and asked to guess what it was. For the life of me I honestly couldn’t even begin to hazard a serious guess. Maybe it could be some sort of space age sieve, magically keeping in the food but letting the water out, or possibly some sort of ‘uber’ magnifying glass? As it turns out both of these suggestions were (predictably) wrong and very very wide of the mark.

Not happy with redesigning the humble vacuum cleaner and hand drier those clever folks at Dyson have now done the same for the rather ordinary desk fan. Now if you just did what I did upon hearing what it actually is, you will at least have glanced back at the photo to look for the tell-tale blades. You will also now have realised that there aren’t any, it is just a hoop on a stand. It works by drawing air through the base and expelling it through the hoop. As this air is pushed through it creates a suction which pulls through more air, hence the ‘multiplier’ part of the name. In fact Dyson state that the Air Multiplier will increase air pressure by fifteen times, and pump through an impressive 118 gallons of air a minute! The Air Multiplier is also incredibly quiet with only the whispered hum of the engine, and ‘whoosh’ sound of the expelled air. In fact, the only real drawback of this blade-less wonder is the price tag, at £199 it’s probably going to be a bit steep for most budgets.