CES 2016, clairy, Clairy Air Purifier A Plant Pot That's Also An Air Purifier 8 January 2016, 8:51 pm EST By Brian Heater Tech Times So, that plant pot right there is an air purifier. The big vent you see blows out air that's absorbed through the plant and filtered through the soil. Essentially, Laboratori Fabrici claims that the system harnesses and enhances the plant's natural air purifying abilities, removing dangerous and annoying particles from the air. The system is also, naturally, a smart one, featuring built-in sensors that monitor the air quality, pollutants, temperature, and humidity in real time, transmitting that information to a connected mobile device. The company has a preorder page for the Clairy set up on its site, but it's not quite live yet. When it is, Laboratori Fabrici is expecting a price point of around $150 to $200 for the smart ceramic pot. Oh, as as for the smell of a system that blows air from the inside of a potted plant, the rep I spoke with told me that it's detectable the first time you power the purifier up, but disappears after a few minutes.

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Ang Zhao and Renjie Chen from the Fudan University and colleagues employed 35 healthy college students in Shanghai to participate in their study, randomly assigning subjects to use real or fake air purifiers for 48 hours in their dorm rooms. After two weeks, the students were given the freedom to use an air purifier of their choice for 48 hours as well. According to results, using an air purifier led to a 57 percent drop in PM2.5 concentration in the air, as well as a reduction of 2.7 percent for systolic blood pressure and a reduction of 4.8 percent for diastolic BP, plus a 17 percent reduction in fractional exhaled nitrous oxide. The study also showed improvements in lung function in the subjects, although these did not reflect statistical significance. The study was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and was accompanied by an editorial from Robert D. Brook, M.D. and Sanjay Rajagopalan, M.D., F.A.C.C. According to Brook and Rajagopalan, regulations are being implemented to improve overall air quality, but opting to use an indoor air purifier can be used to lower exposure to pollution even more.

No level of air pollution should be fine, but the World Health Organization has set particle levels at 35 micrograms per cubic meter to be an acceptable measure. However, in many cities in Asia, air pollution usually exceeds between 100 and 500 micrograms of particulates for every cubic meter. China, where the study was held, has one of the worst levels of air pollution around the world. In the study, air pollution levels in rooms using purifiers dropped from around 96 micrograms for every cubic meter to around 41 micrograms per cubic meter. This certainly proves that air purifiers are effective against pollution, but the researchers noted that further research is needed to more comprehensively evaluate health benefits of long-term air purifier use, most especially in vulnerable populations like the elderly and children. At the same time, it is important to note that pollution levels in the air vary. This means that while using an air purifier has benefits, how big those benefits can be will depend on just how much air pollution is being purified away.

At the very least though, the study has shown that it is possible to do something to improve one's health despite high levels of air pollution. Photo: Meddy Garnet | A Dutch designer figured out a way how to make smog useful and turn it into beautiful jewelry. Gary Ullah / Flickr CC BY 2.0 Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde has reportedly developed a huge a 23-foot (7-metre) air purifier called the Smog Free Tower which releases smog-free clean air, leaving the surrounding area with air that is about 75 percent cleaner. What the Smog Free Tower does is that it sucks up smog like a vacuum from the top and after filtering the air releases it through its six-sided vents. The tower uses innovative ion technology to capture harmful, ultra-fine smog particles from the air such as PM2.5 and PM10. The air purifier has the capacity to clean more than 30,000 cubic metres of air per hour and runs on 1,400 watts of green energy.Roosegaarde thought of the idea to develop a Smog Free Tower when visited Beijing in 2014.

"When I arrived I could see the city clearly, but as the days went by Beijing became increasingly covered in smog. Instead of being sad about it, I decided to do something," said the Dutch designer. "By charging the Smog Free Tower with a small positive current, an electrode will send positive ions into the air. These ions will attach themselves to fine dust particles. A negatively charged surface - the counter electrode - will then draw the positive ions in, together with the fine dust particles. The fine dust that would normally harm us, is collected together with the ions and stored inside of the tower. This technology manages to capture ultra-fine smog particles which regular filter systems fail to do," the Smog Free Tower's Kickstarter page read. The most unique thing about the Smog Free Tower is that it turns the smog particles it collects into Smog Free Cubes that can then be made into jewellery. "Instead of having pollution in our lungs, we can have it in a ring," said Roosegaarde.