What’s going on everybody? This is James White with Freakin’ Reviews,
bringing you As Seen on TV product reviews, gadget reviews, and more. Now if you like what you see in this video,
please consider subscribing for more videos like this. Now today I’ve got three wearable, portable
fans. These bad boys just came in from Amazon. Three completely different designs. Let’s see if any of them work in today’s
video. Now what I’ve got here are three similar
fans but they’re not quite the same. This one is a waist-hanging fan. This one wraps around your neck, and this
one hangs around your neck. I’ve seen at least two of these being advertised
online so I figured I would get the three choices from Amazon I thought might have the
best chance of success and compare them side by side. So let me crack them open and see how they
look. First up, the waist-hanging fan. By the way, this is a lot smaller box than
I expected from the pictures, but that doesn’t mean anything, right? Ok well we’ve got some high-tech looking
batteries just popped out of here. Nice plastic device, and some instructions. Install one, so you get an extra battery. That’s actually pretty nice. And as you can see this has a clip that will
go on your belt and the fan will blow upward. I’m going to try it inside and outside of my
shirt and see which one works, if either. Looks like this cycles four times: low, medium,
high, and off. Oh, we have fan. We have fan. Is that low? That’s medium. Oh it’s grinding sounding. Oh! Wow that didn’t sound like the healthiest
fan, but hey it might work. You can use it while charging. That’s actually a good feature. Let me see what else. I guess that’s about it. So that’ll be the first one. Now let’s see what’s next. This one is called the Wearable Sports Fan
and it goes around your neck. Very small charging cable. Pretty compact. These appear to come outward like this. That’s kind of cool. And they blow right in your face. Ooh. Oh it’s on. Much quieter. That’s medium, sounds like. Oh yeah. This fan is definitely a lot quieter than
the other one. So they can fight that out all they want but
right now this one is much quieter, but we’ve got a long way to go obviously. And finally, this one is the only one that
has aromatherapy built into it, so that’s an extra feature if that’s your thing. Got a lot of stuff in here. We’ve got a cable. I’ll figure that out. Looks like a lanyard, they’ve got a battery. Another one of these things. Thank you for having instructions, great. I like how it says “User Manual.” Does that really count as a manual? It’s one small piece of paper. It doesn’t even open. That’s it. That’s a manual? I don’t know if I’d use the word “manual.” I like how #3 says “This fan hanging in
his chest.” Very clear what that’s supposed to mean. I guess hang around your chest? Who’s “he” and why does he have my fan? This has a turning dial here. Low to high. OK I like that. Now where does the aromatherapy go here? And what are these? Alright time for the first test. This is just kind of my first-look test to
see how they function. I’m not going to do the power test until
I’ve fully charged them because they’re right out of the box. They may not have full charges. So I’m just going to put them on, see how
they work, and then I’ll go onto additional tests. First up we’re going to do the waist hanging
fan. This is supposed to just clip on your pants
like that. I feel like I’m wearing some 90s old school
beeper on. Page me guys. Get my pager number. I’ll put this fan on and see what we’ve
got here. I don’t really feel too much out here. I guess I feel it. Let me put it in my shirt. Oh I feel it in my shirt. I almost like that better. It’s kind of loud and it’s only on low. Oh I definitely feel that. Alright well hey I’m feeling it. It’s blowing. I can feel it come up here. Let me try under the shirt. I feel that too, although it’s just blowing
hot air. Oh look at this. Bailey doesn’t know what to think about
this. Just first-use it seems like it kind of works
as expected. Now let’s try the face fan. I guess that’s what you call it. Gotta remember where the button is at. Way quieter. And the fans are right up in your face. Oh yeah. I like this one, because I like having the
breeze on my face. I guess most people would. Down there on the waist it has to travel a
pretty big distance. This I definitely feel, and it’s quieter. How does it look? If you saw someone walking down the street
with this, would you think anything about it? I’m not sure that aesthetically it looks
great hanging around your neck but functionally it seems like they’re onto something here. And next, it looks like I’ve got a camera
like a tourist. A camera on my waist. What do we got here? I feel like I’m on vacation wearing this
around my neck. Let’s see what we’ve got here. Alright well my chin nice and cool. Right down there it feels great. Right here. By the time it gets to the top of my head,
it’s kind of dissipated already. Well what I’m going to do next is I’m
going to… I’m going to plug these in and make sure
they’re fully charged and then I’m going to take these out in the field and go out
in the desert where it’s nice and crisp out there and put them to a real test. And by the way, if I can go off on a tangent
for one second. This is probably the point where a lot of
reviewers “reviewers” on YouTuber would say, “Hey they work great!” They use them for 30 seconds. That’s not what I do here. As you guys know, I’m just scratching the
surface. Who could I be talking about? It’s hard to say. Maybe I won’t put this in the video at all. Even still, even when I put a product through
the ringer, I still get people say I should have done something different or I didn’t
do it right. So you can never win on YouTube. But I definitely put them through more of
a ringer than other “reviewers” out there do. In most cases. Next up, field test. Alright they’re all charging here. Waist fan blinking, hanging neck fan blinking,
and this one is not blinking. Once they’re fully charged, take them outside. Light’s not blinking. Light’s not blinking anymore. And the light’s blue. So these three are done. There are few things I love more than testing
out cooling products out here in the desert when it’s hot outside. The current temperature right now I believe
is 102 degrees. So what I’m going to do is walk out here
in the desert for a little bit and try each one of these fans. Now, not to be forgotten, from May of 2019,
this is the same place I tested this out, the Arctic Hat. That’s right I’m bringing this one back. I’m going to use this to keep my head shaded. By the way you know… it’s so stylish looking
isn’t it? By the way I’ve noticed that over time,
it seems like when it’s not wet, it seems to have shrunk, so the Arctic Hat seems like
it’s tighter when it’s not wet. I guess that’s a minor point. I wish this would go down. We’ll start from the bottom to the top. We’ll go waist, then the neck hanging one,
and then the one that goes around your neck. Not too much of a breeze out here so we’ll
see if these fans make much of a difference. I’m looking forward to it. Here we go. Alright first up is the waist hanging fan. There’s a mild breeze out here. It’s a hot breeze though, so we’ll see
if this makes a difference. There it goes. Gonna walk around for a few minutes with this
one and see how it does. Once thing I’m noticing is when I walk it’s
sometimes points at me and sometimes it doesn’t as I take steps. See, like that not so much. Here, yes. I don’t really feel too much either. I wonder if I should put it in the very front. Boy that doesn’t look very good, does it? Alright so be honest. What do you think about it being in the front? How does that look? No? It’s very loud. And I’m not feeling a great deal of breeze
from it really. Oh under my shirt is pretty good. I’m going to leave it in my shirt. It actually feels better. That way you don’t see it as much. It’s pretty loud though. But I’m going to keep hiking. In the shirt is better than out of the shirt. I think it’s just too far away. I mean it’s a couple of feet away from your
face so under your shirt at least you can kind of feel it blowing around in there. I just heard a noise out here. I don’t know what that noise was. Let me turn this loud fan off. That was just low! That was just on low and it was that loud. I just heard a weird sound out here. What was that? I think this just evolved into an episode
of Ghost Hunters or something. Shhh. Quiet. Back to my fan. I’m going to put it on high this time. Wow, do you hear that? So loud. It doesn’t sound like it’s a good fan. I do like it under the shirt, though. It’s just so loud. I will say though that on high, I do feel
it pretty well under my shirt, so I’m happy with that in that respect. That’s about the only thing I’m happy
about with this one. And here we go. This is all the way up. Much quieter. This is the fan necklace. I definitely feel this one more than the other
one. It’s blowing right on my chin. If you want the coolest chin while hiking
through the Outback, this is it. I should probably watch where I’m going. This one is definitely working better. I can feel it right on my face. It’s almost too much against my body because
all that breeze is right there. It’s almost like a canteen. It’s quieter than the first one, and I feel
it on my face more than the first one, so not too bad. Let’s try the third one. It’s so hot out here that my camera overheated
so I had to come back to the car and cool it off before I do the third one. Yeah it’s definitely warm out here. Now that the camera is cooled back off again,
I’m going to go out there and do the third one before this thing overheats again. Alright here we go. Oh yeah. Even with a breeze I feel this one. It feels like I’ve got a drone around my
neck, but with the waist one when I was walking over here with the slight breeze, I could
barely feel it. With these right in my face, even with a slight breeze I can feel
it. And it’s quieter. And you’ve got two fans instead of one. I’m still liking this one. Let me go over here where there’s less breeze
and test it out a little bit more. Yeah even with a breeze, these right here
against my face… turn that off so you can hear me. Even with a breeze, with these so close to
my face, they’re certainly effective. Now people might stare at you, they might
laugh, they might snicker, point their fingers, but hey you’re going to be cooled off anyway,
right? Now I kind of wish all of these had some sort
of evaporative cooling, they’d blow like moist air at you, but that’s not in the
cards for these fans. But right now, I’ve got an early favorite. I think you know which one that is, but let’s
do a few more tests before we wrap this thing up. I felt it with the breeze. I feel it especially now when there is no
breeze. It’s right in my face, and you can adjust
them. This is awesome. I kind of like this one. I don’t care how it looks. I don’t care, I’m comfortable. That’s all that matters when you’re boiling
out here in the desert, right? Why am I still filming? Let’s go back home. So what my walk yesterday taught me is that
if you’re outside and there’s any breeze at all, these fans are kind of not very efficient. So what I thought I would do is bring them
inside where I’m not moving around, there’s no wind at all, so it’s completely dead
air in here. It’s a little bit stuffy because, even though
I’ve got my air running, it’s still pretty warm outside. It’s supposed to be 106 today. Air conditioning can only do so much. So while I’m sitting on my laptop here I
think I’m going to put one of these fans on and try it out and then rotate through
all three of them. Let’s try that. First up, waist fan. Alright so what I’m going to have to do
here is, is kind of angle it so that it’s blowing on my face here. I guess that’s working. Alright, let me get my laptop, do some work
here. It’s a little bit loud. And this is on low. Let me put it on high. Whisper quiet, that’s right. I’m going to work on my laptop for about
15 minutes with this one on and rotate through all three of them. What? Oh, you didn’t say anything. I will say I do feel it. It’s blowing right through my arm into my
face, so I do feel it. It’s a pretty good breeze. The only problem is my chest is getting the
bulk of it. I’m getting more cool air on my chest than
on my face. But I’m feeling it. What if I put it in my shirt? Oh wow. That’s good. I like it in my shirt better. By the way, look who just came in here. Bailey come here. Come here. Look at Bailey just came in here. You good girl. Good girl. Let’s see what Bailey thinks about it. Oh she doesn’t like it. She doesn’t like it. She didn’t like it. Get that breath off me. Get that breath off me. I guess it kind of worked. I just.. When you’re sitting down here, it’s blowing
across your body, I don’t know. I don’t like this part of my body being
cooled off as much as my face. So let’s move to the next one now. I’ve got a lot of work to do. I need to get cooled off here. Here we go. Ahh. That feels nice. Back to my laptop here. Got a lot of work to do. See now this one, all the cool air is going
there which actually feels pretty good. You can’t really adjust it that much. It just kind of wherever it’s going to be
angled. Let’s see what we’ve got here. I’ve got a lot of stuff on Amazon to order
man. This next month is going to be busy. You guys wouldn’t believe how many things I’ve
ordered. I think I ordered 29 things this week, just
from Amazon. Alright well that was pretty good. Not bad and it’s much quieter even on the
highest setting. Time for the face fan. Alright, again it feels like two drones in
your face. You know what’s weird is that they’re
not really making the same frequency sound so I’m hearing like a little bit of like
weird stereo effect of slightly different frequencies. But what’s cool about this one, no pun intended,
is that you can adjust it exactly where you want it to go. That is significantly cooler than the others
as far as my perception of the air blowing in my face goes. I like the lower setting better because, unlike
the waist fan which has to go that far, the one only has to go about that far to your
face. My question is would you walk around in public
with these on your neck? People probably wouldn’t even know what
they are. They almost look like headphones put on wrong
or something, I don’t know. What do you think? Yeah? No? Yes? No? Honestly, I wouldn’t care if I was in an
office and it was hot and stuffy in there and I had these blowing air in my face, I
wouldn’t really care. I think what I’m going to do next is charge
these up and test out the battery life and see how long each one lasts. That might make a difference to some people. Let’s do that next. Next up I’ve got all three of these freshly
charged and I’ve got my stopwatch here and I’m going to put them all on and see which
one lasts the longest just running them on high, so let’s do that right now. And we’re off. It’s very loud. Very, very loud. Let’s see which one lasts the longest. I actually put this one on it’s side because
the intake is back there and that was probably not a good way to have it down here. It’s moving around so much. Look at this. So I put it on an upside down mouse pad to
keep it in place. But I think this is a more efficient way for
this fan to run. Alright we’re at 13 minutes, they’re still
going. Still going strong. I’m happy with it so far. Very loud. These are much quieter. Whisper quiet. Oh, it just turned off! It just turned off! Oh it died. At 31 minutes, it just croaked. Listen how much quieter it is now. We’ll see how the other two go, but this
one died right around 31 minutes when I was showing you how quiet the other ones were. We’re at the 2 hour 17 minute mark and this
one as you can see it's flickering but it did just go off, so... The face fan still seems to be going strong. It wins the battery life competition. Alright it’s been 2 hours and 44 minutes
and this fan finally conked out. This one went first, then that one, and this
is the winner of the longevity test. I wanted to point out on the SkyGenius, aka
the neck fan, that these little styrofoam-feeling disks are where the aromatherapy happens. You place it in this holder right here, and
it stays in place. It doesn’t really fall out because it’s
kind of wedged in there. You put your oils on here and you do get the
aromatherapy effect. It works pretty well. Well I’ve got a development that happened
overnight. After charging the waist fan, it still doesn’t
work. That’s right. I even tried the extra battery they included. It is not working. It’s dead. So even though I think it only lasted an hour
and a half, really what happened was it died after an hour and a half, with no resuscitation. The waist fan has croaked and it is out of
the competition. Get outta here. But not unlike Willy Wonka, who continued
after Augustus Gloop fell into the chocolate stream, we’re going to continue with the
two remaining fans for one final test, and that is to give you a visual of how well they
work. Let’s do that right now. And that’s with the return of the Emo Hair
for the final two fans. No, it’s not Chris Gaines guys. I didn’t really like that other fan anyways. It was too loud. So the neck fan. This is all the way up. You can see how the hair is blowing. I think my chin is actually blocking most
of the air. If I move it away from my chin, look at this. I wish they could hold it out a little bit
further somehow because that would be a little bit better, wouldn’t it? Down here, nice cool chin and neck. I don’t know if I need that or not. Next up, the drone-looking what I call face
fan. Now they say you’re supposed to not have
your hair down when you’re wearing this. I don’t think my hair is long enough here. But look at this, I can adjust it however
I want it. Ah yes. Can have it off to the sides. I clearly think that the face fan is the most
versatile. Now, is it the most stylish? Probably not. But I don’t think any of them really are. I think I’ve got enough information to wrap
this up. So yeah the waist fan is kind of a waste. But I think I used it enough to be able to
tell if I liked it or not. I think even without dying, this one would
have ended up in third place for me anyway. It’s just too far away from your face. When you’re walking around and it’s moving
like this so the fan isn’t really hitting you. It works better when it’s underneath your
shirt but even still sometimes your shirt blocks off the fan. I just think this is not a great choice. Despite the fact that this one was the loudest
of all the units. Even if it wasn’t loud, I’d still pick
this one third place. Next up the neck hanging fan. I think this one, it’s not a bad option
but my problem is because the angle it’s at, you’re really just blowing air on your
chin and neck which I guess is fine but it doesn’t really cover your face which is
where most people want the fans to blow. The aromatherapy I guess has limited appeal
but to me this one is a solid second place. Clear favorite here. The face fan, or whatever you want to call
it. It’s adjustable, it’s the quietest, it
lasted the longest as far as the batteries go. I think this is definitely by far the choice. Now it may not be the most stylish one to
wear but who cares if you’re comfortable, right? It’s comfort over style, especially when
you live out in the desert in the summertime. Have you guys tried any of these fans? Tell me what you think in the comments below. Please follow my social profiles for progress
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