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Keep in mind that this device still has a fan in it. He just calls it an "impeller" and hides it in the base. Its still a blower with blades. The fancy wing shape circle is just a duct to direct the blower's air stream out the top.



he should just replace the hidden fan with a smaller version of the air amplifier... and then have another smaller air amplifier for the blower in the blower, eventually he could minimize it into an ultra tiny electrostatic air mover.


Yeah, I didn't quite grasp how turning a small volume of fast moving air into a larger volume of slow moving air maps to the concept of "amplification" either.


It's turtles all the way down!


Do we still need to worry about particle buildup becoming kindling?


No. thanks to the efficient new design, death will be instantaneous.


Wow... which means that dust will accumulate in the impeller.


Where you can't reach it with a duster.




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