Gizmodo: Air Purifier

Coway's Daan Air Purifier Freshens a Room While Freshening a Room

Jason Chen — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:20:00 EDT

These Daan air purifiers from Coway are some of the best looking air purifiers we've ever seen. The ones we've had are like Danny Trejo: workmanlike in its ability to get the job done, but very very ugly. The Daans are the opposite of ugly, and can cover a 161 sq. ft. room with a single unit, or more if you stack a few together. There's even a bonus mood lighting function in case you somehow trick a lady into coming home with you, which seems as likely as you importing one of these from Korea. [Appliancist]

USB Multi-Cleaner Keeps You Healthy And Tidy

Matt Hickey — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:00:50 EDT

We've seen our share of so-called air purifiers, and desktop vacuums, but when they combine into a maximum cleaning tool, and it's powered by USB, you get to see it here. It sits on your desk, quietly sucking up all the dust coming your way from your filthy co-workers. And to make sure you don't share yours with them, it quickly transforms into a small hand-held vacuum cleaner with brush, just to keep your desk and keyboard clean. Save your health, and your USB ports! Bonus "Can you see what's wrong with this picture?" photo after the jump.

USB powered, right?

MSI Puts Air Purifier Into Smokin' PR620 Laptop

Wilson Rothman — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:35:57 EST

We get it, you're not going to quit. So do everyone else at the library a favor and buy MSI's PR620 laptop with built in "anion" air purifier. According to the unintentionally hilarious post at PCLaunches.com, the laptop releases 550,000 anions (aka negative ions) from its vent, "more than if you were right next to mountains and beaches." Meanwhile...

The notebook absorbs dust particles in the air to prevent inhaling into human body, eliminating all possible contact to disease. The PR620 also eliminate toxic gases in the air, destroying the "Silent Assisin[sic]".

The "Smoker-Free Quickly" function apparently clears "smog, dust and second cigarette smoke" in some kind of high-powered temporary blast. We're actually not sure if or when this is coming to market, but we'll be sure to let you know when it does. Smell you later! (Fake cough, fake cough, fake cough.) [PCLaunches.com via Crave]

Swiss Army Jacket With Air Purifier Helps You Breathe a Little Easier

Sean Fallon — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:00:58 EST

Those who have trouble with allergies (and deep pockets) may try just about anything to help alleviate their symptoms, and chances are Victorinox had these people in mind when they developed this Swiss Army Tech Vest with Air Purifier. The purifier itself is located in the left breast pocket, and it supposedly transfers purified air to the funnel collar of the jacket where it can be sucked into sensitive lungs. My guess is that this jacket is nothing more than a means of separating suffering suckers from their hard-earned cash, but I'm not willing to spend the $500 to find out if it works. [Swiss Army via Wired]

Bel-Air Filtration System Uses Plants to Purify Our Environs

AddyDugdale — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:43:56 EST

With more than a nod to NASA and James Dyson, French designer Mathieu Lehanneur's Bel-Air purifying system uses plants to keep the atmosphere inside your house clean from nasty pollutants. The pint-sized air-filtration system acts as a miniature greenhouse, stripping the benzene, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene from inside your home using three natural filters.

The Bel-Air uses the leaves and roots of the plant and a humid bath to strip the pollutants from the air and purify it. The idea came from plant research done by NASA back in the Eighties when they were looking for a way to keep their astronauts safe from the polymer-saturated environment found in space travel.

Lehanneur developed the filter-free filter alongside Harvard scientist David Edwards, and describes his invention as being "to the American and Asiatic common filter appliances what Dyson is to regular vacuum cleaners."
The Bel-Air is currently available as a prototype, and is expected to go into production in 2009, but Lehanneur would like buyers to test his machine and report back so that the finished article will be even better. You will be able to see it at MoMA in New York in February 2008, as part of the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition. [Dezeen]

Takara Tomy Air Filter for Babies Cleans Air, But Chokes You With Its Cuteness

Matt Buchanan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:30:06 EDT

Famed maker of awesome Takara Tomy's latest bundle of cool is a super cute air filter for babies. It's outfitted with an antibacterial filter and Sharp's "decontamination ion" purification tech (my AC in Japan actually had this too) so your offspring don't inhale all the nasty, germ-y stuff floating around your house. It's about $150 (17,640 yen), so it's kind of pricey, but it's smaller (115x80x140mm) and definitely packs in more cute per square inch than most air filters. [Fuji Sankei via Tokyo Mango]

IonFlow 50 Air Purifier Keeps Your Environment Pollen- and Pollution-Free

AddyDugdale — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:48:38 EDT

The IonFlow 50 is an air purifier that doesn't look or sound like an air purifier. Designed by Michael Malmborg for LightAir, the IonStyle is ozone- and filter-free and works completely silently.

Tests in Sweden proved that the IonFlow 50 eliminated 99.94 per cent of all harmful pollutants - dust, smoke, pollen, bacteria and viruses all get the boot in rooms as large as 540 sq ft. The floor version is $395, while the ceiling version will set you back $280.

Stylish IonFlow purifier for clean and healthy air [Born Rich]

Hello Kitty Air Purifier Eliminates Odors, Converts You Into A Psychopath

www.gizmodo.com — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:45:17 EDT

Further proving that there's a secret inter-dimensional empire working to take over planet Earth, producing all kinds of absurd devices with behavior-modifying chips in them, here comes the Hello Kitty Air Purifier.

Install it at home, in the car seat or implanted under your armpit, and get rid of odors. In theory. Looking at it, as well as cleansing the atmosphere, it will rid you of bad karma, kill Kenny, and save Al Gore too. As for changing you into a psychopath, it's already working, because I've felt compelled to put another product shot of Her Imperial Majesty Hello Kitty, right after the jump.

– Jesus Diaz

Hello Kitty purifies your air [Akihabara News]

USB Air Purifier, Clock

Travis Hudson — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:06:01 EDT

This clock is actually labeled as a USB Digital Thermo Clock Air Purifier. Odd name, yes, but it accurately describes everything that this little USB device does. It can purify the air around you (probably not much, though), and tell you the time, temperature and date all while glowing. It is available through Brando for $36. – Travis Hudson

Product Page [Via The Raw Feed]

Temperature, Time and USB Air Purifier, All In One

Charlie White — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:08:51 EDT

The casual observer would never suspect that we've seen an unusually high number of USB powered air purifiers in these parts, where there have been units for the office, for the car, and even for the soul, but now the USB air purifier has been teamed up with the digital temperature alarm clock, in a package that seems to be specifically geared toward slackers from the disco area who tend to fall asleep at their desks.

So let's figure this out: it's powered by USB so you must be someone who has a computer beside or near your bed, or you might be someone who regularly plans to sleep at your desk. Then, you must be either a smoker or someone who emits foul odors, just to need this air purifier. Then, you have to enjoy hearing an hourly beep sound, and lastly, you must be someone who likes a three-color LED disco light flashing in your face. The whole thing looks tacky and absurd. If that fits your lifestyle, shell out $32 and it's yours. – Charlie White

Digital temperature alarm clock & USB air purifier [USB Geek]

USB Air Purifier and Ionizer

Jason Chen — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:54:38 EDT

If your coworker in the next cube has an odor somewhere between a puddle of urine in the subway and the Antichrist, click on the link as fast as humanly possible. This USB powered air purifier provides a breath soothing freshness that's so desperately missing from corporate America today. At a price of $20, it's money well spent to avoid a day in sensitivity training after you bludgeon Steve over the head with his own keyboard.

Cleaner air, via USB port [Sci Fi Tech]

The Stench-inator

gizmogo — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 12:43:20 EDT

One time I left some raw chicken in the fridge a little longer than I was supposed to and, well, let's just say the meat drawer has never smelled the same since

I don't know if this $50 Oreck thing can handle such horror, but it claims to extinguish day-to-day odors and break down pesticides on produce (!!). The Refrigerator Air Purifier replaces that open box of baking soda, and then some. It eliminates food odors, sterilizes your fridge once every hour, reduces food spoilage, and decomposes agri-chemicals too. No idea how it does this crazy voodoo, and all just on 4 C batteries.

Product Page [Oreck via Red Ferret]