I’ve always admired Dyson’s engineering-first approach to product design, ever since my mum brought home our first Dyson bagless vacuum cleaner! When Dyson launched their Dyson Pure Cool Air Purifier, I was excited to see what new tech or super-efficient design they would bring to the show. But what I found was that Dyson hadn’t […]
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Can Japanese Pitta Masks Protect Against Coronavirus?
With the outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus, interest has surged in Japanese Pitta masks. Smart Air has received a flood of questions about how well they filter the coronavirus and other viruses. The Japanese Pitta masks are sleek and incredibly popular, but there’s little information available on how well they filter out tiny […]
Are Japanese Pitta Masks Effective Against Air Pollution? Review
In recent months, the Japanese Pitta masks have seen a surge in popularity in Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai, as well as in India, the US and South Korea. They look sleek, but I wanted to review whether the Pitta masks actually work, and how effective is the Pitta Mask at filtering PM2.5, […]
What Is the Best Air Purifier on the Market Today?
I started thinking about finding the best air purifier for my home because I was living in Beijing when the “airpocalypse” struck. I had a cough I couldn’t shake for weeks, so I started doing research into air purifiers. Unlike another answer here, I wasn’t concerned about allergens like pollen. I was concerned […]
How Accurate Is the Huawei Air Quality Monitor? New Test!
When I started building DIY air purifiers in Beijing to protect my lungs from this… …I wanted to test the air in my home, but particle counters were really expensive. Most cost around $1,000 or $2,000 dollars. But then there was the Dylos, which I bought for about $260. […]
Do Masks Really Work in India’s Air Pollution?
Every year when winter rolls around, a billion people in India are left breathing toxic, polluted air when on the streets. Be it in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata or Hyderabad, everyone is forced to become experts in a complicated scientific question to cope with the pollution: Do air pollution masks work? I’ve heard doubts from smart, […]
Do Pollution Masks Really Work?
When a billion people in China (and quite a few expats) woke up to the severe air pollution in almost every city in China, it forced a billion people to become experts in a complicated scientific question: Do masks work? Since then, I’ve given talks with hundreds of people all around China about how to protect […]
Is the Laser Egg Only Accurate in Beijing?
A few months ago, Smart Air tested the Laser Egg, the Node, and the Dylos against official PM2.5 readings. The results were way better than I expected! All three machines correlated r = .90 or higher with the gold-standard numbers, which is very high. But this test may have exaggerated their accuracy. See, the Laser Egg […]
Xiaomi Mi 2 Auto Mode Leaves Air Unsafe for 86% of Hours | Review
Ever since I coughed through a Beijing airpocalypse, I’ve been saying clean air doesn’t need to cost an arm and a leg. I set up the social enterprise Smart Air to put out open-source data on purifiers and provide low-cost purifiers to people in places like China and India based on that data. So when the […]
How Accurate Is the 1 Micron Dylos? Official PM2.5 Comparison Test
Lots of people are buying air quality monitors these days, but how do they compare to the official pollution numbers–are they accurate? When I bought a Dylos DC1100 Pro laser particle counter, I did a comparison test with the US Embassy. I put my Dylos Pro outside the window of my apartment (at Nanluoguxiang) 70 […]
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