Adorably petty design complaint. 

I own a "portable room air purifier" which is essentially a glorified box fan with HEPA and charcoal filters strapped to it.

The manufacturer's definition of portability involves four small casters on the bottom of the thing, which makes for trivial relocation effort provided it's only travelling on a hardwood floor and not over any threshholds.

Sadly, it becomes evident in every single other reasonable use case that what the thing really needed was a HANDLE.

Adorably petty design complaint. 

And here's the part that takes this from "mild misstep in the practicality department" to "did any of you knuckledraggers ever try to actually use this bloody thing":

It looks like this from the back. (Hey, look who has brand-new third-gen Hue bulbs in their bedroom!)

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All that exhaust grill space where it curves downward? Empty inside. It would have been trivial to mould a handle into the centre.

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