the home front: designing for health at home - air purifier filter

With the release of dyson's latest purifier fan in Canada, the cleaning work at home has become serious.
Dyson Pure Cool Link is "an app
The connected intelligent purifier, while automatically removing the detected pollutants, provides you with instructions on the quality of the home air.
"But how much should Canadians care about the air quality at home?
Jessica dansingh
Lin, PR manager, Dyson Canada Limited
This is a question we should consider more.
"When you think about pollution, you think about the outdoors," she said . ".
"You will think of smog, pollen, cars and factory emissions, but you will not often think of the air quality at home.
But the US Environmental Protection AgencyS.
In fact, studies have shown that indoor air quality in your home may be five times more than outdoor pollution.
"We added a lot of outdoor contaminants," said Dan Singh.
Lin uses cleaning products, hair gel, scented candles, building materials, pet scents and more.
In cities like Vancouver, she says, people obviously care about healthy living, and we consume the most --air —
We don't think much about it.
"We breathe 22,000 times a day, so we really should consider the air quality at home," she said . ".
"They have indoor air quality readings every day and people listen to them on the news," she said . ".
This is Dyson's first "connect" purifier that allows people to track the air quality at home by sending information from the machine to anapp (
Developed for Android and iOS)
By working with data analytics company BreezoMeter, provide readings such as "good, very good, fair and poor" and information about the outdoor air quality in the city where they live.
According to your family activities, it is not uncommon to get a read of "good" external air quality and "poor" internal air quality, she said.
Everything has a price tag, and Dyson's latest product has two: $599 for a bigger tower fan and $499 for a smaller desktop version.
When asked how much air it can clean and how fast it can clean, Danzinger-
Lin replied: "If you live in a 700-square-foot apartment, the air inside is quite open, and eventually all the air will be filtered out through this machine.
If you live in three
Storeyhome, it won't reach every gap in that home, but it makes the most sense to put the air purifier where you spend the most time. ”San Francisco-
The Branch, based in Branch creative, is solving indoor air pollution problems from scratch, designing fashionable living wall species for Woolly Pocket.
The flowerpot is made of recycled plastic milk jug in a variety of colors and is easy to use, even for the most inexperienced gardener.
"You removed the smallest package," said Josh Morenstein, founder and creative director of the branch . ".
"There is a small hook at the bottom.
All the hardware is inside, there is no plastic bag, you turn the partition 180 degrees and fill the cavity in front with dirt.
Morenstein said: "The back cavity of the planters is filled with about a bottle of water of value that flows through the soil, not down, so you are watering all the roots, and build a reservoir so you don't have to worry about it in a few weeks.
From plants to herbs, anything that grows well inside works well in these pots, says Nick Cronan
Founder and creative director of the branch.
"Over the past 12 to 18 months, we have had several customers come and talk to us about making some sort of electronic air purifier for the home," he said . ".
"It's usually not from the North American market, but something (ironic)
With regard to the use of electricity, this can be done by coal or burning natural gas to improve your own personal air space.
We like the idea of this simulation technology.
Morenstein and Cronan fill the branch's studio with plants recommended by NASA's Clean Air Research, this suggests that "some common indoor plants may provide a natural way to remove benzene and so on, including spider plants, rubber plants, Boston fern and miscellaneous snake plants.