Desktop Air Conditioner

by Can You Imagine

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• ASIN: B000096RG5
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,696 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 2, 2007

Product Description

Be the envy of your office with this personal cooling system. -- Climate control you can take anywhere, the desktop air conditioner is portable and easy to use. Simply fill the included water bottle with water, freeze it, and set it inside the chamber. Once you flip the on switch, you'll enjoy a cool relaxing breeze adjustable in any direction. -- Technical Details -- Accepts most 1-pint water bottles -- Adjustable vent grill -- Condensation catch tray -- Cools with water, not chemicals -- Quiet operation -- Size = 13"L x 7"W x 11"H. -- Requires 2 D batteries, not included.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

70 of 77 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not long Enough, September 13, 2003

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Gavin Portwood (Cecina, LI Italy) - See all my reviews

= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Desktop Air Conditioner (Electronics)

This is a very good air conditioner. It works very well, but there is one problem it doesnt last long enough. Ounce you get the frozen water from the freezer and put it in the air conditioner it lasts for about 10 minutes on a hot day, and thats when you need it. If your buying this item to cool down a small room, it doesnt work!!

69 of 76 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, excellent product!, July 16, 2004

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L. Barnes "Wonder Woman" (Charleston, SC United States) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Desktop Air Conditioner (Electronics)

I am VERY pleased with this product. A little background--I live in the hot, humid deep south. Our expected high today is 92, and it's extremely uncomfortable here. To top things off, my office A/C has been broken for weeks, and no one wants to pay for the repairs. While the departments fight out that battle, I'm left with a obscenely hot office. It's bad. It's really, really bad.

So I found this little item and thought it might help. And I can't tell you in strong enough terms that it does! It's very quiet, so it does not annoy me when I'm trying to concentrate. As long as you are realistic, and don't expect miracles, this is a good little machine. My office is pretty small, and I'm finding that as long as I keep the door shut, it cools the room reasonably well. I am considering buying a second one to put on the opposite side of my office. I think with two of them, I'll be extremely comfortable.

One potential drawback that some might want to consider: I have an ice machine in my office, so as soon as the ice in the cylinder melts, I can quicky replace it. However, I can see where it would be frustrating for someone who does not have that convenience.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good idea....Great flop, July 22, 2005

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Moupuway - See all my reviews

This review is from: Desktop Air Conditioner (Electronics)

Well fully knowing that the idea of blowing air over ice is a commonly used form of air conditioning i believed this product should in fact do what it is labeled to do, be an air conditioner. Unfortunately, it does not. As well as there being other problems with this that has to be the most important.
It really goes back to the fact that the fan doesn't have enough stength behind it. It can not by any means blow over the ice hard enough to actually cool even the smallest area. Either there needs to be a bigger fan in the engine or just a bigger fan in the first place. Either way it would then push more air over the ice making it work atleast somewhat better.
Another fatel flaw to the design is the air conditioner only comes with one bottle and you can't find a replacement bottle. So after about maybe 2 hours at best, the ice has all melted and you have to stick in back in the freezer until the next day. I at first believe in this product and thought i could get around this problem by using another type of bottle. I tried to use water bottles and gatorade bottles, but both had the same problem. The bottles could not fit into the right place to not block all the air. So without an actual replacement bottle (or actually 12 so you could go through entire day) this system is rather flawed.
My third real problem is more of a complaint and an annoyance. If you use batteries they die within hours so that is obviously not the key. It has the possibility of a plug in on the backside of the unit. Of course that type of plug in, is not included or a common plug in type. So to avoid constantly buying batteries you have to spend about $20 to get the right plug in. So instead of having a $20 air conditioner i have paid $40 and it doesn't really do anything. For that money i could have easily bought a much nicer air conditioner and have had it actually work.

In summary, don't buy this product. If you like it so much, buy a regular fan with a much stronger push behind it and stick a frozen bottled water in front of it. I guarantee it will do better than this product and probally will save you about $30.