The cage had many iterations, the density of the cage increased and so the distance of the cage from the propeller. The propeller got replaced with a plastic one with rounded edges (though probably to save cost not as much for safety), so even if the cage is removed and you touch the propeller it isn’t that dangerous.
I don’t know what country you are in, and it is possible that in some place there might be dangerous fans, but if you can buy the bladeless Dyson, then chances are that stores also sell only modern fans, unless you’re purposefully buying an antique somewhere.
We had standard box fans growing up. The mesh is flexible enough to permit small fingers, and the plastic blades aren’t much solace to the crying toddler.
All of which ignores the other, more prevalent motivation of aesthetics.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Yes, I saw. The holes are small enough for an adult and far away from the blades for a toddler that it is safe.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
My experience differs.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
A lot of time came since we had fans like this: i.pinimg.com/…/245585f84697075b625f5fff32089e07.j…
The cage had many iterations, the density of the cage increased and so the distance of the cage from the propeller. The propeller got replaced with a plastic one with rounded edges (though probably to save cost not as much for safety), so even if the cage is removed and you touch the propeller it isn’t that dangerous.
I don’t know what country you are in, and it is possible that in some place there might be dangerous fans, but if you can buy the bladeless Dyson, then chances are that stores also sell only modern fans, unless you’re purposefully buying an antique somewhere.
Here is an example www.amazon.com/s?k=desk+fans
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
We had standard box fans growing up. The mesh is flexible enough to permit small fingers, and the plastic blades aren’t much solace to the crying toddler.
All of which ignores the other, more prevalent motivation of aesthetics.