Product: 2-Pack: Cool On The Go Fans
Model: 855441003000, 855441003086, 855441003093, 855441003062
Condition: New
Multi-functional cooling fan includes a lanyard and clip for attaching to a stroller, infant car seat, desktop, bag strap, waist belt, car visor, and more
Provides a powerful airflow with over 4 hours of battery life on high, 8 hours on medium, and 12 hours on low speed
Features colorful LED lights (can be switched on or off)
Look, I’m sure these are perfectly good little fans, but unless they use ionic propulsion, can we please stop calling fans “bladeless”? I blame Dyson. Heh
@embedit I found em on amazon. Most people like them, some don’t. They take 4 AA batteries and come with 4 AA rechargeable ones. But they will only recharge if you use the 7.5v wall adapter that comes with it. Personally, i have fancy chargers and rechargeable AA batts, so ill probably end up not using the included charger. Customer review said the charge port was pretty janky, anyhow.
@ColeSloth@embedit some of these units will have rechargeable batteries in them along with the adapter, but some won’t… so we chose to not advertise that they come with any. It’s a meh lottery!
Props to Meh for the Trek joke, but I find it hard to believe they didn’t also create the ad images too. Those are some of the worst, funniest and most ridiculous product pics I have seen here and that’s a high bar!
Also, let’s not forget that Riker and Picard are shooting at a weird neck nubbin parasite. The reverse of that shot contains the exploding head and torso of poor Lieutenant Commander Remmick, may he rest in pieces.
You recognize the scene that easily? (Or is that the only time they stand side-by-side and shoot together?) Or have you just bluffed your way past my limited knowledge of Star Trek lore?
Are they both secretly left-handed and I never knew it, or is the image flipped and I just failed my spot check to positively identify where their badges are sitting?
I like Star Trek, but apparently I’m not a very good Trekkie.
@j4yx0r@xobzoo as a fellow Trekkie who’s memory is highly visual based 1. yes that scene is that recognizable due to the contents of the episode, and beardless Riker would also help narrow down the time frame. 2. yes the image is flipped.
@j4yx0r Nubbin bugs, eh? Are you perchance a Friend of DeSoto?
And yes, it’s a super recognizable image. Lack of beard instantly narrows it down, and it’s fairly rare that both Riker and Picard are firing together like this.
Also, is that busty beach babe playing dominoes?! When and how does that actually ever happen? And why are there censor black bars on the back of the dominoes? What the hell is going on here?!
Sufficiently weird product. Good job. Surprised they didn’t slap a tiny UV light in there and maybe a pair of clips for a surgical mask and call it “personal protection device USBC BT lithium powered UV antiviral hepa filtration RANCHN-HDMI9000”
interested until pic 2, that lady looks so natural with a giant mass of white plastic hanging from her neck. At least get a big flavot flav chain to hang it on
Just came back from a Bluegrass festival with my Mom, my daughter and my grandson where these would have been appreciated. At least, since it was in the Irish Catskills it cooled off at night.
We got some neck-mounted fans from Aldi last week. They’re okay at some times of day, or in air conditioning, but when the night-humidity sets in a fan is basically useless. (Florida, right.)
@lisagd My husband is of the “neckless” body type. I found some of his high school yearbook photos online recently, and said to him, “So you USED TO have a neck?!”
Whoa, the base of these (clip + hinge) is identical to a pair of battery-operated booklights we bought two decades ago… I’m failing to find a photo but I swear it’s precisely the same!
Serious question: how loud are these when running? I like refreshing airflow but am driven exceeding mad by loud fans, and can’t imagine wearing one of these a foot from my head (or a few feet from my feet) if they make that whiny cheap fan sound. Do they have multiple speeds? A lot stuff I have (like air cleaners) have speed settings and I tend to set to the lowest speed when possible. Of course there is some noise but some will make a distant “white noise” on the lower setting. Others don’t give you a choice and make you scream “Get that damn Banshee out of my room” (and definitely off my neck).
What can I say, I was a ‘Wooter’ back in the day and I can’t help myself when useless crap shows up from time to time. No regrets! I have a flying monkey!
I missed the rechargeable battery part…and the part that required you to buy their special charger to charge those extra batteries. So we bought two useless chunks of plastic, until we spend more to get the special charger, or sit by a plug. Wow, what a deal. I gotta wait til I’ve had coffee before I buy stuff.
I bought two of these for a family vacation so tried them out for the first time today and neither work. Beyond disappointed and now I need to try to get my hard earned money back.
I RECEIVED THIS ORDER ABOUT A WEEK AGO. ALL 4 ARE USELESS. I’VE BEEN CHARGING THEM ON AND OFF FOR THE PAST WEEK AND THEY ONLY WORK WHEN PLUGGED INTO THE CHARGER. PLEASE REFUND OR SEND RETURN LABELS.
Specs
Product: 2-Pack: Cool On The Go Fans
Model: 855441003000, 855441003086, 855441003093, 855441003062
Condition: New
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
$49.98 (for 2) at Cool On The Go
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Jul 29 - Tuesday, Jul 30
These are only cool because of the lights.
Look, I’m sure these are perfectly good little fans, but unless they use ionic propulsion, can we please stop calling fans “bladeless”? I blame Dyson. Heh
EDIT: Even the Meh clicky face knows!
@PooltoyWolf Give me 5 minutes and a screwdriver, and I’ll show you how bladeless they are.
Wait, this is Meh. Give me 30 seconds and no screwdriver.
@blaineg That’s a bit mean! LOL
Also, wow! They’re available in both (Georgia) red AND purple?!
@PooltoyWolf It’s truly a great day in Meh history. Buy both colors to celebrate
The writeup says these use AAA batteries, but the Cool on the Go site says AA. Which is it?
@embedit I found em on amazon. Most people like them, some don’t. They take 4 AA batteries and come with 4 AA rechargeable ones. But they will only recharge if you use the 7.5v wall adapter that comes with it. Personally, i have fancy chargers and rechargeable AA batts, so ill probably end up not using the included charger. Customer review said the charge port was pretty janky, anyhow.
@embedit you are right - it’s AA batteries. Thank you!
@ColeSloth @embedit some of these units will have rechargeable batteries in them along with the adapter, but some won’t… so we chose to not advertise that they come with any. It’s a meh lottery!
@embedit @troy Lol. Right on!
@ColeSloth @embedit @troy some will, some won’t. Classic! May I suggest:
Meh, embrace the random.
Anything these should NOT be clipped onto?
@phendrick Well I am sure you can figure that out by experience…
/showme something that a personal fan should not be clipped to
@mediocrebot Absolute failure!
Although I guess it would be pretty dumb to clip a fan onto another fan.
+1 for the Star Trek reference. Set phasers to “relaxing breeze.”
/showme captain Jean-Luc Picard, and commander William Riker shooting phaser fans at an alien
Great for when you are hot and sweaty standing in line at the theme park and want to share the odors under your shirt with those around you!
https://d2b8wt72ktn9a2.cloudfront.net/mediocre/image/upload/c_pad,f_auto,dpr_2.0,h_300,q_auto,w_300/nbolvxvtqvtx0050ldme.webp
Props to Meh for the Trek joke, but I find it hard to believe they didn’t also create the ad images too. Those are some of the worst, funniest and most ridiculous product pics I have seen here and that’s a high bar!
Also, let’s not forget that Riker and Picard are shooting at a weird neck nubbin parasite. The reverse of that shot contains the exploding head and torso of poor Lieutenant Commander Remmick, may he rest in pieces.
@j4yx0r nuclear peptide cake!
@j4yx0r Two things:
I like Star Trek, but apparently I’m not a very good Trekkie.
@j4yx0r @xobzoo as a fellow Trekkie who’s memory is highly visual based 1. yes that scene is that recognizable due to the contents of the episode, and beardless Riker would also help narrow down the time frame. 2. yes the image is flipped.
@j4yx0r Nubbin bugs, eh? Are you perchance a Friend of DeSoto?
And yes, it’s a super recognizable image. Lack of beard instantly narrows it down, and it’s fairly rare that both Riker and Picard are firing together like this.
@chollo007 @xobzoo
Ding ding ding! They’re also using those “key fob” style phasers that went out of fashion in later seasons. /nerd
@cainsley
Best boss I ever had.
@cainsley @j4yx0r best boss I ever had
Also, is that busty beach babe playing dominoes?! When and how does that actually ever happen? And why are there censor black bars on the back of the dominoes? What the hell is going on here?!
@j4yx0r Those may be Ron Jeremy dominoes, or maybe it is Big Domino flexing its corporate muscle?
@hpesoj
You’d think they’d be longer.
@hpesoj
Or hairier.
Big pass. Takes four AA rechargeable batteries that are not included. No thanks.
@bugger Nothing requires rechargeable batteries.
Maybe next year, might need it by then due to global warming. However, for now, that just looks way too dorky to use.
Sufficiently weird product. Good job. Surprised they didn’t slap a tiny UV light in there and maybe a pair of clips for a surgical mask and call it “personal protection device USBC BT lithium powered UV antiviral hepa filtration RANCHN-HDMI9000”
interested until pic 2, that lady looks so natural with a giant mass of white plastic hanging from her neck. At least get a big flavot flav chain to hang it on
Just came back from a Bluegrass festival with my Mom, my daughter and my grandson where these would have been appreciated. At least, since it was in the Irish Catskills it cooled off at night.
We got some neck-mounted fans from Aldi last week. They’re okay at some times of day, or in air conditioning, but when the night-humidity sets in a fan is basically useless. (Florida, right.)
What’s this “neckless” that one could hang a fan from?
@lisagd I think ending up “neckless” (or headless) comes from being warned by the mods one too many a time.
@lisagd My husband is of the “neckless” body type. I found some of his high school yearbook photos online recently, and said to him, “So you USED TO have a neck?!”
I’m just here to say that seeing Star Trek TNG in my inbox this morning made me sooooooo happy!
Has “cool” in the name… is in fact incredibly dorky-looking.
Make it make sense!
I thought these were very small until I clicked on the video. They are ridiculously large and dorky-looking.
Count me in.
@MuddyG Thanks for calling attention to the honking large size of this… thing. It’s almost bigger than that infant’s head!
Crap, our Disney Cruise out of Ft. Lauderdale leaves Mon Jul 29, so we wouldn’t get these in time.
Whoa, the base of these (clip + hinge) is identical to a pair of battery-operated booklights we bought two decades ago… I’m failing to find a photo but I swear it’s precisely the same!
What a strange design
With a website like that, these are price unrealistically high.
Serious question: how loud are these when running? I like refreshing airflow but am driven exceeding mad by loud fans, and can’t imagine wearing one of these a foot from my head (or a few feet from my feet) if they make that whiny cheap fan sound. Do they have multiple speeds? A lot stuff I have (like air cleaners) have speed settings and I tend to set to the lowest speed when possible. Of course there is some noise but some will make a distant “white noise” on the lower setting. Others don’t give you a choice and make you scream “Get that damn Banshee out of my room” (and definitely off my neck).
@pmarin
The price of celebrity.
What can I say, I was a ‘Wooter’ back in the day and I can’t help myself when useless crap shows up from time to time. No regrets! I have a flying monkey!
What a strange design.
Well, got my pair today. One works fine, the other not at all…
@Perfect_Timing Let them know at meh.com/support so that they can get you fixed up.
I missed the rechargeable battery part…and the part that required you to buy their special charger to charge those extra batteries. So we bought two useless chunks of plastic, until we spend more to get the special charger, or sit by a plug. Wow, what a deal. I gotta wait til I’ve had coffee before I buy stuff.
@charlfort Yours are still powered by normal AA batteries as advertised, are they not?
I bought two of these for a family vacation so tried them out for the first time today and neither work. Beyond disappointed and now I need to try to get my hard earned money back.
@doxeelady You’re sure the batteries are both good and in the proper orientation?
I RECEIVED THIS ORDER ABOUT A WEEK AGO. ALL 4 ARE USELESS. I’VE BEEN CHARGING THEM ON AND OFF FOR THE PAST WEEK AND THEY ONLY WORK WHEN PLUGGED INTO THE CHARGER. PLEASE REFUND OR SEND RETURN LABELS.
@MICKEY13 You have to run these on 4 AA batteries or a power bank for portable use. They do not “charge”
@troy Funny how we’ve gone from the default of expecting to add batteries to automatically thinking everything has an internal battery.