This is a neat little fan and does work, but I had to throw it out, due to the fact that the insidious toxic plastic vapors emitted from it immediately gave me headaches that lasted for hours, every time I went near it.I don't know if it is the fire-retardant, the BPA, plasticizers, the XYZ, or whatever. I am not a chemist. This offending vapor is in many fans and electronics (but certainly not all) and more in the past than it is in the newer stuff, since Europe impose consumer protection restrictions on toxic additives.I did not return it, but threw away the fan, and kept the stand, USB chord, and variable speed switch. I sometimes feel I should have returned it.But if you are the kind of person that craves that new-car smell, you might not have a problem with this fan, but I would not recommend it to cancer patients, Alzheimer's patients, or allergic people, MCS sufferers, etc.