Recently, I had a conversation with someone who had just moved cross-country to a new apartment. “Got that Windmill hooked up to the window,” she told me, as if she were name-dropping her cable ...

Until recently, I thought a window air conditioning unit could only be an eyesore; a purely utilitarian device that was required to keep me from melting into my couch all summer long. For me, going ...

When I moved into my NYC apartment three years ago, I soon realized that living in a pre-war building came with a unique set of challenges: The apartment runs hot and has been hard to cool down. I ...

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I have lived without central air for the past 15 years, so I’m very familiar with the fear instilled in city dwellers around self-installing AC units: they’re heavy, bulky, need to be supported by ...

Not only is the Windmill AC the easiest unit I've ever installed, it's the only AC unit I've tried that effectively kept my older and not well-insulated home cool during a heat wave. Bonus: It's ...

Windmill wants to solve one of summer’s most intractable problems: the blight of ugly air conditioners. The New York-based startup launched in 2020 with a 10,000-person waitlist for its $415 smart AC, ...

I’m not sure where you are in the country, but it’s hot as hell. Seriously though, according to the National Weather Service, from the eastern U.S. to the southwest and south-central United States, ...

It's hard to think of a product category that is less sexy than window air conditioning units. Windmill begs to differ, bringing a breath of fresh air to an industry that's been steadfastly clunking ...