****** - Verified Buyer
4.5
The cute factor of this little fan is high. Quality is good and it seems to put out a decent air flow for it's size. This fan is not silent but is very quiet. I keep mine on a table next to my TV is it is quiet enough that I don't notice it at all with the TV at normal volume levels.Cute but not strong at all. My daughter says she can barely feel it.I wanted a fan for sleeping. I thought other reviewers were exaggerating how quiet it is...they didn't...it is really, really quiet.So quiet that I need to get something else for my 'white noise' sleep!Takes up little space. Strong air flow. Easy to clean.Cute FanWe had a fan with rubber blades when I was growing up. As kids we always played with the fan, stopping the blades by putting gradual pressure on them with our fingers. If we hit the outside of the blades quickly we could stop it, but there would be one big ouch in doing so. the plastic blades on this are advertised as soft but essentially they are a bit less forgiving than rubber. They have to be to be able to direct air flow, basically they're credit card soft. Stick your hand in the side too fast and ouch, from the front you can slow them down and stop. Aside from playing this fan looks unusual with the blades like big colorful flowers. Maybe a bit more of a girls fan here. Still it's quiet, even at high speed, and you can morph your voice too like the guy in the insurance commercial that had his apartment robbed.The thing I don't understand about this is the price. They save on housing, it's not an oscillating fan, nor a real high volume mover, so why not more like half of the current price? For my male centered gadget loving self, the Zon has a dual oscillating desk fan that looks really SciFi cool for about the same price. There are some tower fans that oscillate with remote for just a few bucks more. This fan is fixed, but can be tilted to point up or down, and that's mostly fine for a desk fan, but the cost says it should do more. Mildly recommended for those loving their décor, and maybe female students for their desk or dorm room (not all colleges have AC). I for one see better options without the flowers.If you need a decorative piece, this might be fine. If you need a fan, forget it. The best I can say is that it's for a child's room. But even then, the fan blades are so small that unless you put it right near you, you won't even feel it. So if you want a fan to blow air in a whole room, forget it. I guess you could put it on a desk and blow it on you, but it's not even pretty. Sure, it has colorful pink or purple blades (soft rubbery plastic), but the main unit is ugly gray, and the colorful blades don't even look good with it. Plus, it's not that small -- just the blades are. But the big problem is, it's not even reliable. I plugged it in the first time and it wouldn't even go on! So I unplugged, it jiggled the switch, and finally it worked. So the bottom line is this: cheaply made, poorly engineered, not very pretty, and not at all effective as a fan.This is a decent personal fan. You get a silver-tone base, which (as other reviewers have pointed out) looks like a microphone from the 1930s. You also get two interchangeable fan blades, one that's bright pink and one that's bright purple. I ordered this fan because it gets awfully hot in my sewing room in the summer, but a ceiling fan is out of the question---the air currents would wreak havoc on tissue patterns, sheets of paper, and lightweight fabrics while I'm trying to work. I thought perhaps a personal-sized fan would do better.The fan is electric, not battery-powered. It has two speeds, so you can adjust how fast it goes. It produces a decent breeze at the high setting, but it's not strong enough to disturb my patterns or papers, which is great. The blades are simple to change, you just pull one off and pop the other one on. Easy peasy!The downside is, It really only cools you if you're directly in front of it, and it does NOT rotate, so you have to aim it just right. Another downside is that it doesn't have a blade guard. My husband eagerly volunteered to stick his fingers in the blades while the fan was running. . . . He claims it didn't hurt at all. I still wouldn't recommend doing it, though!I'll give this four stars and recommend it if you need a small, brightly colored, stationary fan. It would be great for teens or older kids, or maybe in a dorm.
