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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.
I think Dyson should make sex toys.
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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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In most modern countries even climate denier countries like the US. They actually have technology that cleans up much of the air quality issues with pollution. Those smoke stacks over industrial cities, are venting mostly steam, and Carbon Dioxide, and sometime chemicals that have been deemed rightly or wrongly harmless to life, or at such a low level that it isn't a big issue. Personal Air Filters doesn't seem like a good product, because there is actually more affordable ways to clean up the air quality, it just some effort.
Now all that said. Getting Leadership anywhere in the world, is a hard find. As today's media heavy environment means the people who are most qualified to make such a decision are so far back in the hierarchy, because their specialty in such fields makes their communication to the general public sound elitists.
If you are specialist in an area then you should be allowed to be elitist in that area. Facts are not a democracy nor do they always fit into public opinion, but really should be listened to and taken seriously.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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.
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.
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breathing out of our ears?
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.