Today's little dose of nerdy

Check this out: it's a bladeless fan. Or, as Dyson likes to call it, an Air Multiplier. Like the curve of an airplane wing, the secret to how it works lies in aerodynamic engineering...ehh, I'll just let Dyson explain:




The upsides are pretty obvious (it's smaller, lighter, safer and of course SUPER COOL), but the downside is that at £199 ($319USD/$347AUD), this sucker is expensive. Do you think this is just a fad, or that the price will come down and eventually this will be what all fans will look like?