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Your Basic Fan Isn’t Cutting It Anymore, So Upgrade to a Smart Fan

Your fan can do more than just spin, so break up with your old school one now.

By Matt Jancer | Reviewed by Ysolt Usigan

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Smashmouth said it: “My world’s on fire, how ’bout yours,” at least figuratively (although some of it certainly is literally). My friend in France is giving me updates on how Europe is broiling, and here in New York it’s not much better. Deals on air conditioners are still to be had if you snap them up before they go out of stock (again), but when it’s this hot you need to pull out all the stops.

I rely on fans to get air moving inside my apartment, both to keep me cooler than air conditioning alone and to lower my electricity bill. Fans can be endearingly dumb, like this retro Vornado fan that lives on my office desk, but a fan that’s smart enough to know when to turn up the power is a........

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