The Shark ChillPill portable fan is an Amazon Prime Day essential deal

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Amazon Prime Day has landed, running 23-26 June, and if there’s one product built specifically for this exact moment in the calendar, it’s the Shark ChillPill portable fan.

It’s currently down from $149.99 to $129.99 in the US, and from £149.99 to £119.99 in the UK. And currently sits in Stuff’s best fan buying guide.

For the uninitiated, the ChillPill is Shark’s attempt at solving the “too hot to function” problem in one wearable device. It combines a fan, a fine mist spray, and a cryo-style contact cooling plate, and you can wear it, clip it, or twist its stand out for hands-free tabletop use.

That cooling plate is the headline act here. Press it to your skin and Shark claims it’ll drop the local temperature by up to 9°C almost instantly. It’s essentially the same logic as holding a cold can of drink against your neck, just without the sticky aftermath.

The fan side of things gets 10 speed settings, which doubles as 10 noise levels, so you can go from library-quiet to mini tornado, depending on how desperate the situation is. The mist function is the more surprising party trick: it’s designed to cool without soaking you or your clothes, running in either constant or interval mode, and you can top up the reservoir wherever you are.

Battery life is up to 11 hours on the lowest setting, dropping to 1.5 hours if you’re running it flat out, with a full recharge via USB-C taking 3.5 hours.

In the UK, this particular deal also bundles in the hard-shell travel case and crossbody strap, which is the version I’d actually go for – the ChillPill is the kind of gadget that lives in a bag half the time, so having somewhere to actually put it is important.

In the US, accessories are sold separately.

It’s a genuinely useful bit of kit, and with summer heat being about as predictable as it ever is, a Prime Day discount on it feels like perfect timing.

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As Buying Guide Editor, Spencer is responsible for all e-commerce content on Stuff, overseeing buying guides as well as covering deals and new product launches. Spencer has been writing about consumer tech for over eight years. He has worked on some of the biggest publications in the UK, where he covered everything from the emergence of smartwatches to the arrival of self-driving cars. During this time, Spencer has become a seasoned traveller, racking up air miles while travelling around the world reviewing cars, attending product launches, and covering every trade show known to man, from Baselworld and Geneva Motor Show to CES and MWC. While tech remains one of his biggest passions, Spencer also enjoys getting hands-on with the latest luxury watches, trying out new grooming kit, and road-testing all kinds of vehicles, from electric scooters to supercars.