While useful, ceiling fans are generally ugly and the ones with a light attached can be even worse. When we stumbled across Fanaway we were surprised that we hadn’t seen this concept before. Fanaway is a fan/light combo but the blades of the fan are concealed in the light pendant and only turns into a ceiling fan when it is switched on.
Look: Fanaway Ceiling Fan
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This product was first seen on an Australia TV show “The New Inventors”- to watch the presentation and see how the blades extend and retract click here.
Currently, Fanaway is only available in Australia though Beacon Lighting and is priced between AU$369-389. They are in talks with international distributors but there is no details of an expected release date. Visit the Fanaway website for more information.
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While Fanaway may be only in Australia, there are other options like that here in the states.
Check out the "Air Shadow" by Fanimation, it is basically the same concept and you can even get it without a light, giving it a cool Transformers look.
http://www.fanimation.com/products/air_shadow/
view tallguylehigh's profile
Apparently I'm one of the few people who would rather be comfortable than stylish. We have ceiling fans in every single room (except baths), and our only concession to style was that we chose single dome lights instead of the fluted glass cups. Here in the South, life (and summer) can be unbearable without ceiling fans.
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i would certainly be interested in knowing how well these things work, vice the novelty of their design.
view loislane's profile
me too! I want to know how well they operate in cooling the room temperature!!
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Actually 'ask you first', no fan cools a room - only people. Beyond circulating air, fans have no effect on room temperature. Its the movement of air over your skin that carries your body heat away faster than when you are in still air that cools you.
So what can we learn from this? There is no point leaving fans on in rooms no one is in - it just adds to global warming.
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...and that sleeping under a ceiling fan on very low speed is heaven...
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Not only does it feel good for adults to sleep under a fan, but Industrial designer Ron Rezek of The Modern Fan Co, who created the first contemporary ceiling fan in 1986 when his children were small, says on low speed ceiling fans also lull babies to sleep.
But more important, Dr. De-Kun Li, a reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist at Kaiser Permanente’s division of research in Oakland, Calif., told the New York Times: “If parents wanted to do more to reduce the baby’s SIDS risk, they can add a fan.†Fans help circulate the air.
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