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Honey, They Shrunk the AC Unit
The future is here! Wow, definitely going to need to get a couple units sold here at our firm.
Canada Furnace Calgary
Though I appreciate the idea behind the concept... creating something a bit more attractive and smaller than the usual eyesore-ish large A/C's, to me, this product trades one problem for another. Now it looks like someone stuck a Nest or even worse, a 90s car stereo, into a window unit. I would have appreciated something a lot more decorative and beautiful as the "face" of the window unit that blended harmoniously with my contemporary interiors. The Nest works nicely because of its form language; and how discrete it looks when installed on a wall (even if it appears "techy" when on). But this Noria, to me, is still an eyesore. So though I appreciate solving problems (making A/C's small, lighter, easier to install for newbies), I feel it created more problems in terms of aesthetics. My personal design philosophy is if a product typically sits in plain view (esp. an electronic or electrical item) I don't see why it can't look beautiful and blend harmoniously with your interiors. I've uploaded my own favorite examples of adding beauty and attention to form to traditionally ubiquitous and unattractive but necessary items (humidifiers, smoke alarms, paper shredders, space heaters, etc.).
Very skeptical here. If you live in a closet and need only a few degrees of reduction 5000BTUs will do the job. I have a large bedroom and 12,000BTUs does not cut it.No information is given as to efficiency either which makes me nervous.
Is it 40% smaller, or 40% the size of a conventional AC? Big difference.
It still takes up the entire width of a window to seal, even if 40% is accurate. It is beautiful and smaller, but at 40% or more cost than a conventional window unit, is that worth it?
This is a great price and size for 5,000 BTU, but can they show that it is powerful enough for a room? If it could cool to the equivalent of a 8,000 or even 10,000 BTU traditional unit, then it would be really interesting. Otherwise, I would just see this as a good value for small cooling capacity.