Handheld Misting Fan, Rechargeable USB Mini Fan

Air moving over damp skin is what actually cools you down. A plain fan just pushes hot air from one side of your face to the other. This one carries a small water tank and puts out a fine nano mist alongside the airflow, so the two work together, and on a still, humid day that is the difference between coping and not.

Four speeds, adjusted on the fly, and the spray runs independently, so you can use it as an ordinary fan when you do not want anything getting damp. On a train, at a desk, next to a laptop. The blades are flexible, which is the sensible design choice for something that ends up loose in a bag around children. It is rechargeable rather than battery-eating, and the draw is low enough that one top-up goes a long way.

The whole thing is small and light enough to sit in a handbag, a festival bag or a pack pocket without you noticing it is there. It stands on a desk or holds comfortably in one hand, and it comes in pink, black or white. Beach days, festival queues, tents, greenhouses, sitting in traffic with the air conditioning broken: all the moments you would otherwise spend fanning your own face with a folded map.

• Mist plus airflow the fine spray evaporates on your skin and cools far faster than a dry fan.
• Four speed settings from a quiet desk breeze up to full blast in a queue in the sun.
• Spray runs separately switch it off and use it as a plain fan when damp is not welcome.
• Rechargeable battery no hunting for AA batteries halfway through a heatwave.
• Flexible fan blades safer around small fingers and survives being crushed in a bag.
• Handbag and pack-pocket sized light enough that you will genuinely carry it, not leave it home.
• Pink, black or white pick one, or pick three and stop the argument over who gets it.