Lasko Products Lasko Desktop Wind Tower Multi-Directional Fan

This is the perfect fan to have at your bedside if you get overly warm during the night (night sweats, hot flashes, etc.). The bottom stays stationary and the top can either remain stationary or oscilate. I sleep much better with this quiet, talented wonder!

Bought 2 - One in the bedroom is on a nightstand. It is quiet and has a nice even breeze blowing across the bed. I have it directed right at the bed and it keeps us much cooler than when using the ceiling fan. One in the kitchen is on the counter top near the stove. Blows the heat of the range right out the backdoor and helps keep the kitchen at a tolerable temperature (most days!) The kitchen fan is set to oscillate on high speed; the bedroom fan is stationary and on medium speed. It's really nice to have those options. The fan is small enough and light enough to easily move from room to room as needed. I have set one on the bathroom vanity a couple of times (though I would not leave it unattended that close to the sink).

The fan is a "tower". It also rotates and uses less space than a regular fan due to it's shape. this fan has 2 sections to it that increase the radius of the wind space. I use it by my computer and it is sot so disturbing to my paperwork, while creating a comfortable environment.

I bought this fan because my other one went out on me. I chose this brand because while I was checking out at a retailer I felt this breeze that reminded me of being back home with the windows open smelling the ocean air. The checkout associate had a full size one but since I wanted two I opted for this size (two small for the price of one big). It works just as well. I placed one in the living room to see how forceful the breeze was and within minutes my boyfriend and my son, who were lounging around, fell asleep! A definate smart buy to get a few minutes of piece :) One down is it's a little louder then a regular fan. No bother to me because it drowns out any outside noise but some may find it a little noisey.

Works very well, has developed an irritating noise when f I rst turned on though. It is a great little fan for my small room needs though.

PERFECT FOR OFFICE AND BEDTIME, COMFORTING WIND LOW NOISE

The split fan feature is nice but it's manual and is stationary, but if it wasn't that would drive the price up. Good for a table top fan. Works well. Good air flow so that makes it a little louder but it's not obnoxious.

When I first turned it on, it made a loud rattling sound at all speeds. I couldn't hear anything moving within it to cause the sound. After a few minutes, the rattling sound abruptly ceased, and I haven't heard it since. I still don't know what caused it. If it was a screw or other small piece that dislodged inside during shipping, I wonder how long it will be before that causes the whole thing to stop working. So far, though, it hasn't affected it at all. I like the 3 speeds and the amount of air that it generates. It's a bit noisy, but not more so than any other desk fan I've used in the past. Overall, I am happy with my purchase - just keeping my fingers crossed it stays that way!

This is a desktop fan with a very small footprint relative to most other oscillating fans suitable for desktop/personal type use, which is the application for which it was intended. As a desktop fan it is a pretty sweet package. If you try to use this as a room fan you are definitely going to find it anemic because it is a personal fan. Lasko also makes high velocity tower fans that are designed for whole room use. Keep in mind with this item that the whole point of a desktop fan is that it generates a gentle focused breeze you can feel in your personal workspace and does so without making much racket or blowing papers all over the office. This design while a few years old is still modern looking and fits well in a contemporary office environment. When used as intended I've found it to be a pretty good unit that does what it says. FEATURES: There are two control buttons nestled together in an inverted pyramid shape. The larger button on the left is the main control button. Pushing once turns the fan on at the highest setting while another push takes it to medium and a third push puts it in low. The second smaller button to the right turns the oscillation on and off. In oscillation mode only the base remains stationary and the upper 2 sections of the unit with the two vents rotate in unison in an arc of roughly 70 degrees taking 10 seconds to complete one complete oscillation cycle of left to right and right to left. There are three soft plastic gripper "anti-skid" feet which are supposed to keep it from sliding when you push the control buttons, but if you press the buttons harder than actually needed to operate the buttons the unit will scoot across the desk a little. But once you learn to stop punching at it the scooting stops. The vents are in two different sections and the entire top vent section will TWIST to aim at about 35 degrees left or right of the orientation of the bottom vent. The power cord is 6 feet long with a 2-prong polarized plug. OPERATIONAL OBSERVATIONS: The low setting is reasonably quiet making just a low level whir. The fans on my desktop computer make more racket than this does on low. When you try to use this as a room fan you are probably going to use the high setting which is noisier. Medium is at least twice as noisy as low and high is about four times as noisy as the low setting. Low is fine on a desktop most of the time. If you've just come in from lunch bump it to medium for a while until you cool down a bit and then take it back down to low. The oscillation function is nice but not unique at all. However the twist to adjust function of the top section changing the orientation of the vent is unique and it allows you to point the two vents at different angles on the same axis. Once you have the vents set correctly for your work position you can feel four breezes on each full oscillation cycle instead of two. No matter the speed setting on mine the oscillation function adds no noise at all compared to non-oscillation mode and the oscillation cycle remains at 10 seconds. CONS: The two vents on this Lasko have fixed louvers, meaning you can not direct the airflow up or down, so the air blows straight out. On your desk the breeze will hit your chest and face but not the top of my head. I am deducting half a star for the fixed vent louvers. If I could adjust the angle it would be nearly perfect! Another half-star is deducted because this fan looks like it will be a bear to clean and oil. I live in the south and here you need fans to survive, so you take care of them. I clean and oil my fans at least annually. My last desktop fan was my dad's 1960's GE model that finally started getting noisy (bearings shot) so I decided to retire it. This Lasko looks like a real workbench project to disassemble, clean, oil and reassemble compared to a traditional blade fan. I'm not looking forward to it. Might be easier to buy a new one every few years. COMPARISON TO OTHER DESKTOP FANS: I bought mine at the local Wal-Mart store. They had a lot of different fans from different makers out of the box and set up for you to try out using only two available outlets. So a pair of fans was the most I could simultaneously compare. There were fans of all sizes and types including bladeless, tower, mini-tower, box-fans and your traditional oscillating tabletop fans that are cheaply made cosmetic imitations of the 1960's GE fan I was replacing. There was a Retro-style tabletop fan that looked very 30's art deco, but even on the lowest speed it made a heck of a metallic clanging racket that was noisier than the old GE with bad bearings. There is another retro art deco fan I wanted to look at made by Hunter, but this store didn't have any. My criteria for selection was compactness, quietness and moving enough air that I could feel it without blowing papers across the room. The only other fans that were as small, oscillated and moved adequate air were either noisier, moved way too much air or had a much larger footprint. The only other fan that I felt I could use was the one Dyson tabletop fan I tried. The Dyson would have worked perfectly but the Lasko was one-tenth the cost. While not the conversation piece the bladeless Dyson would be, nor as quiet, the Lasko is otherwise ideal for my need and is working out well. There was also a Bionaire bladeless model that is more compact than the Lasko, it oscillates moving an almost equal amount of air but it is at least three times noisier than the Lasko while also costing twice as much. The noise knocked the Bionaire out of the running regardless of the price. There were 20 or so different fans there to try, and of the dozen I actually tried out which would fit space-wise, this Lasko was the one I picked for desktop use. It is very affordable but I would have paid up to $100, it is also the second most quiet I tried and it has a compact design. BRAND LOYALTY: I have a Lasko High Velocity Fan that will practically blow your clothes off on high setting and a Lasko Oscillating Tower Heater that I also like. They have both been good products that I would buy again. My positive experiences with these other Lasko products was reassurance that I was probably making a good choice. Time will tell about this fan though. I certainly don't expect it to last as long as that old GE fan did, mainly because nothing is made to last that long anymore. MADE IN CHINA: These Lasko fans are made in China like most of the compact Lasko items. The larger Lasko items, like stand fans are made in the USA. I'd be willing to pay more for a quality compact USA made desk fan exactly like this one. WARRANTY: The warranty is one year like all Lasko items. If you get one of these and it seems too noisy you should exchange it right away where you bought it because mine is almost as quiet as the Dyson. If you can't exchange it, use the Lasko warranty service. On low I can hear the air moving but that is about all I hear.

it is called a wind Tower and I was expecting it to be like the wind machine that I own. I know it's small but it has hardly any power, at least not as much as I was expecting. the one thing that was really nice it's very very quiet.