Luckily we don't work in an office anymore, so we get full climate control of our workspace, but we do remember the office politics around the A/C thermostat. What always happens in large offices with central air is that some people have to work directly under a vent, while others work directly next to a hot window causing a climate controlled civil war.
That's where Hyun Jin Yoon and Eun Hak Lee come in. The two designers, who imagined the Maple Phone, have envisioned an A/C unit to make the masses happy...
The Free Wind, a collaboration with Samsung Art and Design Institute from South Korea, mounts onto the ceiling and features six fans that can control six wind zones. Each fan has 3 wings for horizontal move and 8 wings for vertical movements. A remote control works a bit like an iPhone, using touch sensitivity to change temps. 
Free Wind 
It would be wonderful if this got incorporated into offices. Back when I worked in an office, the Japanese female office staff would claim to freeze to death at any setting lower than 80 degrees (no exaggeration) while the foreign staff and Japanese men were cooking to death. Since the Japanese female staff were lords of the office environment, we had serious problems every summer.
This looks too good to be cheap though. :-(
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