Shark TurboBlade Review: Compellingly Customizable

Even though I’ve been testing fans at WIRED for a year, it's not often a fan stops me in my tracks. Shark's new TurboBlade fan—released in March 2025—surprised me the minute I saw it fully assembled. Are we sure this is a fan? Is it not a windmill? A speaker? Some kind of high-tech ionizer device? Not since the Dyson series of fans has a manufacturer gone this bold with its design. And in spite of its name, the TurboBlade is actually bladeless. In other words, air gets sucked in through a cleanable screen dust trap on the fan's base and is pushed out through the top, without visible spinning parts or motors. It makes for a clean, seamless aesthetic (in black or white, both with gold-toned accents), minus the worry about dust, grime, or little wayward hands or pet tails. Get in Formation The TurboBlade's setup is quick—the handful of disassembled parts are all labeled, and it didn't take me more than about five minutes to fit them together. The fan's main form looks like a T. There's ... Read full article.