Sharper Image by Vornado AXIS 12 Desktop USB Airbar Tower Fan

Remember Sharper Image? It was a whole store at the mall full of clever things that were designed a little differently than you’d expect—think aggressively ergonomic bottle openers or collapsible executive golf putters.

A lot of that stuff has more of a novelty vibe, but every once in a while, they’d come up with something genuinely innovative, like this desk fan. It’s compact, but it’s also flexible, meaning that you can use it vertically like a regular tower fan (cool) or even horizontally, kind of like a sound bar (oh wow).

So you park it at the corner of your desk, and it’s not going to take up a ton of space, or you can situate it under your monitor or someplace like that, which is a setup that you mostly never see.

It’s all the breezy versatility you need, is what we’re saying. This design is objectively superior to one of those clunky rotating fans, and it has an even more obvious leg up on your current desk setup, which is probably nothing.