Varia has recently been mildly obsessed with antique electric fans. There’s a big market for old fans which have been restored, but they don’t come cheaply. She did find an inexpensive fan on eBay and snapped it up. It’s probably 40 or 50 years old; it’s in fairly good shape, and very powerful.

In fact it’s so powerful that it propels itself backward across a surface. We’re thinking of ways to keep it stationary.

Click the fuzzy image below for a short, fuzzy movie demonstrating the fan’s moonwalk.