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hey I'm CNS rat crist it is 16 degrees outside here in Louisville Kentucky but that's not cold enough for us so we're testing out desk fans today and right here I've got the dyson amo1 update on the amo one am standing for air multiplier and as you can see this is a bladeless fan it's a fan that you can stick your hand right through it doesn't have any blades doesn't spin anything and how this thing works is there's a bit of a jet like turbine in the base that draws air in and then circulates it through this hollow ring there's a slit here along the ridge where the air comes out over a foil and that directs it into a cone it also in trains air which is a term that means to pull in to an existing current and that makes a multiplied current of air that comes at you and that's all great design it works well it circulates there just as well as you would like and our tests that felt about the same as a standard desk fan and it blew out air and a very steady stream now if you compare the amo six to the amo one that came before it you will notice some differences first off you'll see that the amo six has a remote and this is how you'll control the thing it's got the power button it'll turn oscillation on and off it's got the sleep timer setting and you can adjust the intensity as well now none of those controls are on the fan itself except for the power button and that's one complaint I have if you lose this remote or if this remote breaks all you'll be able to do is turn the fan on and off you won't be able to turn oscillation on and off you won't be able to dial it up or down or set that sleep timer you lose all of that if you lose the remote now the remote stores on top thanks to this magnet so it's less likely to run away but still I found myself walking off that in my pocket by mistake a few times I could see that getting lost pretty easily in addition to the new remote there's also a new vanishing LED display that looks very stylish and on top of that the amo six is also a much quieter desk fan it's up to 75% quieter according to Dyson additionally it's also 30% more efficient drawing less power to produce the same current of error so overall the amo 6 is a better engineered desk fan than the amo 1 was so how much is a state of the art Dyson desk fan retail for well this 10 inch model of the amo 6 sells for two hundred and ninety nine dollars that's a pretty whopping price tag but it's actually the same price as the amo one debuted for five years ago so they haven't jacked the price up even though they've added the remote and made it quieter and more efficient and that's a little encouraging but still wow a lot to pay for a desk fan I don't know that you need to spend that much there are Destin's out there that do perfectly good work at 30 bucks or so but if you want a state-of-the-art classy top-of-the-line futuristic desk fan you can't do much better than this for CNET I'm right Chris you