A blue LED indicator ring around the vertically adjustable vent lights up when the heat is on and should you knock it over, it’ll shut itself off. Not bad for $40.
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What? No USB connector for this?
BTW; thought that a Dell PC fan was for.
I too was expecting a USB heater. How many complaints would that stop in the office?
Yeah, I was kinda hoping it would be a USB fan, but not sure what kind of demands it would put on a desktop’s PSU.
So what is this cool little heater called and where does one get it? Willing to go w/o the USB port
x4 lookin for the usb – although this is pretty cool. I might actually consider buying this since my hands are more or less numb after walking to work on these winter days.
@NW Guy: haha thats what I thought too but once I dropped my dell and got a new Macbook I’ve found these make nice hand/lap warmers on the cold days. Less noise, MORE heat.. ahh.
I’m pretty sure those battery fires that were all the rage over the summer and fall would look like sparklers compared to the electrical fires put out by a USB powered heater…
Still given that knowledge, most of us would still go out and buy one, use it, and enjoy the wondorous warmth (along with the occasional desk fire).
… or better yet, for 2$ you can buy 10 sixty watt light bulbs and enjoy 600 watts of heat… you can even save money by closing the lights and after a long day, simply put a pan on top and cook an omelet! Multi-tasking at its best… all without the need to ever plug a thing into your overheating USB docks!
Jon
Yeah, but Jon, this has a pretty blue light. ;)
Haha, not to mention it fits the 4.75×3.75×3.5 size requirements that we now must have because a product is available with that size.
Give me your address Josh, if all I need to do is send you a pretty blue light to get your vote – consider yourself bribed! hahahahha
If your creative with the light bulbs Jon, all you need is one 2 inch square space on your desktop and simply put one on top the other… may take a little electrical now-how but very do-able. You can then put blue cellophane over the entire thing and have Josh as your first client! Sure beats that Geek Christmas Tree from hell a few days ago!
Total investment: 3$
Value: priceless
Jon
But does it come with a remote control? Does it oscillate? What about a timer?
My favorite heater
http://www.laskoproducts.com/heaters/model_5130.html
Why would you remote control and oscillate something thats clearly designed to be sitting right next to you? Comeon!
My office last year used Dell computers… the fans weren’t enough to sate the be-warm wishes of our secretaries. If only I could have offered them this beauty, then maybe we could have done away with some of the monster heaters they had hiding under the desks.
Nice! That is, if I could get cleared to use this at the IRS. Trying to type over 5000 KPH during Winter (when my season starts) is maddening.
Could really be using this right now. People don’t realize it does get cold (20’s-30’s in Arizona) of course in about six more months everyone will be complaining because we are in the 100’s!
Isaiah, I would volunteer to sneak this into your office if your Canadian counterpart agreed to “loose” my tax returns (ei: bills) for 2005 so I don’t need to declare the D40 under “items received but not paid for” line 12 584. Do we have a deal? ;-)
Jon
You can’t draw enough amps from a USB port for a heater.
And the comment on the light bulb wattage wasn’t correct either. A light bulb primarily converts electricity to light, not heat (though it does heat a little). A heating coil converts almost all of it’s energy to heat.
Where can I purchase the tiny desk heater?