Review on 💨 Sharper Image SPIN 10: Compact & Powerful Desktop Fan with 3 Speeds, Stylish Black Design by Samantha Hervey

This fan has the potential to blow air at the level of a personal fan, but it's also a terrible design. The device is advertised as having three speeds, which is technically correct. You can easily force the unit to change speed with the remote, but if you use the controls on the unit itself, it turns itself off half the time when you try to change speed. It also turned off when I pressed the button to control the oscillation. The only manual controls on the device itself are the power button, which also sets the speed, and the hesitation button. Of course, that doesn't work well or at all for a while. Now setting up a fan is relatively easy with a remote control, but how many of us can keep track of a tiny desktop fan remote when every desktop fan we've ever had had controls on the device itself? This will go away soon, so this fan has a buggy controller and won't work very well once this remote control goes away. We need working controls on the device, but they aren't. Then we have a problem with the base. In fact, it's wider than it appears in the photos and much deeper. The base is not a conventional base that makes full contact with the table surface, but a wide stand tripod that you need to place on a large part of an empty table to prevent it from falling to the floor. We tried it on a table where it was taking up too much space, on a bedside table where a leg slipped off the edge, on a dresser where it hit a lamp and fell off, and wherever we put it except on the floor , we ran away in trouble. . All other fans have a regular base that allows the device to stand on a surface large enough for the base but not large enough for the full circumference of the fan. This fan takes up a lot more space than any other we've tried in this size range, and it's all because of that ridiculously designed base. We put it on the kitchen table, but close enough to the edge to see what happens when you leave it where it is and people walk around it. Anyone who trips over him can push him far enough to cause him to fall, as only one foot needs to fall off the edge of the table for the whole block to collapse. This is simply unacceptable. You'd think the base would be bad enough. While traditional fans have flat feet that allow you or your family members, your dogs or cats to push the unit around without knocking it off the table, it turns out this fan is made to be knocked over, and it was possible to knock him over within a few minutes. But then we got to assessing its ability to move air. Air travel is the goal of every fan. As for the air purification feature, they didn't include a CFM rating for the three settings, but it's not even as powerful as my little unknown brand laptop, so the CFM rating should be low, under 150 on the high setting. and maybe under 100. It's not even as good as a portable desktop fan that doesn't work very well, which it should and won't replace. When I look at this fan, its RPM is a bit below average. capabilities relative to the volume of the fan itself, then I see a ridiculous base that takes up a lot more space than any fan in the same size bracket, and then I see how poor the manual control of the unit is, can I just say it really is dreadful. The only reason it gets two stars is because I tested fans that came out of the box and didn't even work. It works, turns on, blows some air but that's all it does. It's poorly constructed, not very powerful, requires a remote control to function properly, and the base makes it a starfighter. This is unacceptable, which surprised me because it is a well-known brand. I'm really surprised how disappointing this is. Would it really be that hard to have a regular base for this device or even a metal base with two side braces or front and rear braces where only two sides require a surface rather than three separate and distant points? that they all need to be on the surface and also need to be fairly far from any edge of the surface for this to work safely? Most fans have a simple flat base that eliminates any such difficulty. This fan will simply topple over if someone trips over it, unless it's in the middle of a large table, e.g. B. in a dining room. We have a DVR, we have lights, we have computers, we have our bibles, and we don't have room for a fan that needs at least 4 inches on the front, side, and back of the unit just to prevent that from happening, risk of the device falling, but it still fell when someone bumped into it. Good luck with your search. I am sorry to say that it is a passport. Get one that has a regular and stable base and a knob or buttons for settings so you can use the fan if the remote is lost or damaged. Also, get one that's at least 200 CFM if not 300. It needs to be at least 250 for this size and it seems half the price but costs almost double some as highly rated. Pass every level. It just fails in all areas and I'm just overwhelmed. I loved this brand twenty years ago.