Battery Operated Hand-Fan with LED Lettering!

Yesterday, my grand-boss (Is that what you call your boss's boss ? :P) gifted our team with a battery operated hand fan each. Well the special thing was there were LED circuitry in one of the blades, that caused it to display pre-programmed letters when the fan was started.

I wanted to see if we can change the letters on the display (mine said Global Operations - I wanted it to say Maddy!). The one we got was hard to program, but after talking to my grand-boss about it, and googling a little, I found that there were equivalent programmable ones... heres an example of what am talking about(courtesy http://www.sjledfan.com/images/bg1.jpg):


eHow article on how to reprogram the models that can be:
http://www.ehow.com/how_6961664_program-led-message-display-fan.html


For those interested in economics:
This product is avaiable for $3.99 (after a $6 discount!) at:
http://www.handhelditems.com/programmable-message-hand-black-p-9833.html

Similar (same?) items from chinese vendors cost around a dollar:
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/hand-fan-led.html
(of course you have to order bulk!)

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