Fans are a pretty boring product to talk about most of the time. They spin, make varying amounts of noise, and keep you or your computer components cool. Zalman is set to make them much more interesting, though, by making one holographic.

As Tom's Hardware reports, during Computex 2018 Zalman was showing off a new cooling fan which is capable of outputting holographic 3D images and video. This is a Zalman product, but one they inherited as part of a start-up acquisition.

The video above doesn't do the quality of the output justice as we can see the fan blades spinning. In person, they are not visible.

The fan manages to create a holographic image using LEDs mounted on the blades. That means it shouldn't use significantly more power than a standard fan, but adds a brand new feature to what would otherwise be just another fan to cool us down. It's also possible to combine two (maybe more?) fans for a larger output.

There's no word on when this will be released, but it will certainly require content and software to mange the output. It seems like a good fit for business customers, but there's also a consumer market if it's packaged right.