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Dyson May Make Wearable Air Purifiers That Double as Headphones, Says Report (cnet.com)
A vacuum giant may be looking to hoover up some of the wearable tech market. From a report: Dyson is considering making a wearable air purifier that could double as headphones, according to Bloomberg, which reported the company submitted patents for wearable air-purifying tech earlier this year. Air purifiers are popular in Asia, especially in China where atmospheric pollution is a serious issue. Air purifiers remove pollutants through filtration, electrostatic precipitation or ionization. Many Chinese citizens also wear face masks when they go outside to avoid inhaling air pollution.
Or Dyson might not..
Can we please cut the rumour crap? We don't need to hear about every dyson and Apple rumour which comes along.
I'll wait for my cans of Perriar as our environment is continually degraded by the fossil fuel industry.
I think Dyson should make sex toys.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
My understanding was that the kind of pollution like NOx and other particulate matter from burning coal, gasoline or diesel was so tiny that so these sorts of filters aren't going to to much but maybe trap some of the larger particles.
And almost certainly the masks aren't going to do anything.
...and now back to our regularly scheduled program...
Politics; n. : A religion whereby man is god.
Those will make a killing in Asia.
In 10 years we'll all live either under a dome or in caves of steel.
I'm guessing the air purifier is in the cans and clean air is passed through tubes to your nose - but I can't see it being very attractive or very practical when you're walking around.
All this reminds me of the joke about what the elephant said to the naked man: "How do you breath through that thing?"
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Bought one of their vacuum cleaners couple years ago, worst purchase I ever made. So expensive, yet so cheap the plastic parts broke all the time. Another one of those over advertised pieces of junk that doesn't work any better then a vacuum costing half as much.
Then, there comes the hurdle of cleaning the filters. I wonder if this is possible, or if the devices will just be disposable when the filters are clogged with particulates.
So I can buy some incredibly overpriced headphones that double as completely ineffective air purifiers? Unless they come with a full suit or a mask that seals on your face, personal air purifiers are 100% complete and total bullshit and you are an idiot for ever purchasing one. Who would ever even think that they could work?? Does anyone really think a tiny little device hanging on your neck can even possibly manage to purify the volume of air that you breathe, much less somehow prevent you from breathing in all the other air around you that hasn't been filtered through it?
And almost certainly the masks aren't going to do anything.
To be fair, as with many, many things in life, it's more of a scale than absolutes. It is very, very hard to absolutely remove all pollutants, as you say, but that doesn't mean we should just throw in the towel. This is why most cleaners, even high quality bleaches used in hospitals are only 99.9% effective. You will never get it all.
That doesn't mean we should throw our hands in the air and just give up though. I'd rather breathe slightly filtered air than completely polluted air.
Jesus guys, if you're attributing this to Bloomberg, why the hell are you linking to CNET which adds nothing of value than adding to the original bloody Bloomberg article?
Man, just when I thought I'd seen all the incompetence of Slashdot editors, along comes msmash.
and angry ticks could fly out of my nipples!
So if I bought a filterless air purifier and hooked it up to a solar panel (let's assume enough to run the purifier 8 hours a day), would that even be remotely effective to clean the air vs. the pollution needed to create these items in the first place? Or are you basically polluting the planet more by trying?
I'm trying to think of a way to help clean the air on a per-household basis.
... tin foil hat expansion.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
breathing out of our ears?
Capitalists foul the environment.
Capitalists sell you the solution to the problem they caused.
They even patent the solution.
From a company who may be good at making motors but can only seem to find a practical use for them in the pre-existing patented designs of other companies.
Typical iDiots. Somobdy dared to "insult" their religion! Heresy!
Nevermind actual factual reality:
Louis Rossmann taking apart Apple products, and telling you exactly why they are utter crap. Also: Proof of how Apple are total assholes and rip you off.
So... there's that...