Samsung-backed portable air quality monitor is positioned to be the next game-changing smart health device

Posted on 17/11/2022 by Vincent Nguyen

Do you often doze off during the day even if you slept well last night? Do you have difficulties with focus and concentration? or Do you have chronic fatigue despite regular exercise and a healthy diet? It might be possible that your healthy lifestyle doesn’t include the most important thing… HEALTHY AIR!

The air you breathe may affect your health in various ways. For example, High concentration levels of carbon dioxide may cause a variety of health effects including headaches, dizziness, restlessness, and even needless feeling. Other air components such as VOCs, particulate matter, and carbon monoxide can be also causes of minor health deterioration and sometimes even lead to fatal illnesses.

Designers: Kangnam Kim & Sujin Lee

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The thing with air is that you really can’t tell when the air quality you’re breathing is bad. Sure, bad water has a specific off-taste or color, food that’s spoilt has a distinct flavor profile that tells you something is wrong, but if your air has too much CO2, there’s really no way of knowing on your own. CO2 is odorless, quite like oxygen, although it isn’t as good for you as the latter.

Reduce fatigue in daily life.

Improve concentration at work.

That’s where AirNotis comes in. Designed to monitor your air quality in real time, AirNotis is a smart display that actively scans the air you breathe to check CO2 and CO levels, fine dust, TVOCs (Total Volatile Organic Compounds), and overall humidity. It’s wireless, and can therefore be carried around with you wherever you go – in your workspace, in your car, your kitchen, or even outdoors.

Real-life examples of “how fast carbon dioxide accumulates indoors”.

As smart as the tech around us has gotten, nobody’s really developed a smart air monitor yet. You’ve got thermostats that tell you the air temperature of your house, but it isn’t a detailed air quality breakdown… and a quick online search can give you information about the general air quality of your neighborhood, but it isn’t hyper-localized or in real-time. That’s really where a device like AirNotis shines through. About the same size as an alarm clock or a tiny smart home hub, AirNotis sits on tabletops, windowpanes, shelves, or even on your car dashboard, actively monitoring the air you’re breathing. It even comes with an adorably retro-inspired design, featuring a quirky pixelated typeface and an overall design aesthetic inspired by Braun’s cathode-ray tube televisions.

The AirNotis has all the hallmarks of a great, disruptive product. A winner of the CES Innovation Awards and the iF Design Award this year (and also accelerated by Samsung’s incubator program), AirNotis is compact, portable, intuitive, and incredibly powerful in its capabilities. Most of us are exposed to high CO and CO2 levels and we don’t even know it. This may sound benign, but high CO2 levels are linked to fatigue, lack of concentration, chest pain, headaches, or in severe cases, unconsciousness or death. A room filled with 4 people can push CO2 levels beyond 1500 particles per meter (PPM) in just 10 minutes, which is linked to health issues like headaches and drowsiness. While humans can’t really detect this change, AirNotis can, and it immediately tells you to ventilate the area to bring the CO2 levels back in check.

Carbon Monoxide is arguably more dangerous than CO2, and exposure to it prevents our red blood cells from carrying oxygen efficiently to the heart and other parts of the body. Just the way AirNotis lets you know if CO2 levels spike beyond acceptable limits, it does the same for CO levels, with an alarm that alerts you into action, and advice to help you remedy the air quality. The device also does the same with fine dust particles, volatile organic compounds, and even temperature and humidity levels. Its touchscreen display acts as a dashboard for your air quality data, with useful notifications that tell you to ventilate your space, exit a room, or wear a mask to stay healthy. Moreover, the AirNotis device also connects to your phone, sending data to an app that allows you to view the air quality of all the places you’ve been to, comparing to see the air you’ve breathed through the day.

Prevent drowsy driving.

Sleep better.

Designed to deliver your daily ‘air notice’, this handy gadget has the potential to be the next smart health device for personal and home use. It’s compact and unlike the internet, delivers air quality metrics of the room you are in, in real-time. You could be in your bedroom, an elevator, your car, your kitchen, even in the outdoors, or in a tent. The idea is that just the way humans tend to focus on the food they’re eating and the nutrition they’re putting into their body, it’s time we also put equal importance on the air we breathe because bad air has as much of a negative impact (or even more) than bad food or bad lifestyles. The device runs on a 2000mAh battery that gives you 24 hours of wireless use, or you can keep it plugged in too, using the USB-C port on the back!

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Canairi Fresh Air Monitor drops if air quality turns bad, pops back up once better

Posted on 08/04/2022 by Rei Padla

Air purifiers have already become necessary in every household, classroom, store, or office. Even without the threat of the coronavirus, people have started using air purifiers, especially in polluted areas.

It may be challenging to look for the best purifiers, especially for the home, because most of them look boring. Good thing many brands and designers are coming up with exciting designs like the Medium Air Purifier-Freshener, the Bauhaus Air Purifier Concept, and the Blur Air Purifier. The latest that caught our attention isn’t precisely an air purifier, but it is a helpful tool that can tell you what to do with toxic gases or when the air is terrible.

Designer: Hans Høite Augustenborg

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The Canairi Fresh Air Monitor will tell you two things: good air or bad air quality. When air quality is good, the canary bird will remain standing. When the air quality detected becomes bad, the canary bird will fall. The idea comes from the old belief that canary bids were used in coal mines to detect danger, mainly, carbon monoxide. Therefore, if a bird faints, there are toxic gases, and they should already get out of the mine. It’s the same principle behind the Canary Smart Speaker that we recently showed you.

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The Canairi Fresh Air Monitor comes with a built-in CO2 sensor. It’s mainly a sensor for the presence of carbon dioxide in the air. If the bird drops, it means the air quality is bad, and you need to open the windows. The bird will be back to life once the air quality is better. The yellow bird will tell you when it’s time to do something and ventilate the home.

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The Canairi has a CO2-sensor that activates a motor to make the bird go down. It drops when the CO2 goes over 1000 ppm for more than ten minutes. When it’s below the said level, the Canairi will go back up. The designer described the Canairi as “a democratic design language that makes it simple for children to understand but also invites the minimalist adult to play along.”

Canairi Fresh Air Monitor Demo

The device wants to let you know if the air is clean for your own good. It’s also environment-friendly as it is constructed from recycled plastic materials. It has a wall mount and comes with a rechargeable battery. The Canairi’s design is straightforward, and it works even sans any digital display, compatible app, sound, or light. So if you don’t want the pretty yellow bird to die, make sure there is proper ventilation in the room, and the air is clean. Perhaps you should get that air purifier you’ve been wanting to buy–it’s about time.

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This personal air quality monitor is the size of a keychain!

Posted on 21/05/2020 by Ruchi Thukral

Monitoring air quality is going to become crucial post this pandemic as we all try to boost our respiratory systems. It isn’t possible to carry your air purifier everywhere with you and how can you tell if the air quality in the multiple environments that surround you is safe? Well, Sprimo has a solution for you – a keychain-sized personal air monitor that keeps you informed in real-time about the air you breathe. This is extremely important for those with pre-existing respiratory conditions so they can reduce their discomfort by checking the air quality before going to a certain place.

This compact personal gadget monitors the air quality around you and reports the collected data on an intuitive app that you can install on your smartphone. It is compatible with iPhones as the nifty device connects to your phone via the lightning port. As soon as you insert it, the air monitor should give you the readings instantly whether you are indoors or outdoors. Along with the air quality, it also gives you additional details like temperature and humidity’s effects on the air so you cover all your bases. The accurate air quality measurements are then color-coded for easy comprehension – green means clean air and red means you could be breathing in harmful particles. This helps to figure out if the areas you spend most of your time in has clean air and how it affects your health. Like does your office or school has healthy air quality? If not, you now know that you have to take the necessary steps to change that instead of continuing to harm your respiratory system unknowingly.

It also tracks toxic paint smell and chemicals, pollution, smog, cleaners, dirty clothes, second-hand smoke, perfume for allergies, glue, pet waste or garbage, and more! Sprimo’s personal air monitor is determined to make sure you only breathe clean air so your health remains uncomplicated during these complicated times.

Designer: Sprimo

This air quality monitor tracks 5 factors and recommends changes for health

Posted on 16/03/2020 by Ruchi Thukral

People are now more self-aware than ever about hygiene. In many ways, the global pandemic has served as a wake-up call for all us to make necessary changes in our lifestyle for better health. From simple habits to gadgets like air purifiers, these changes should stick in our daily routines even after the situation calms down. The first step to better health always starts at home and we usually don’t think about things like the air quality surrounding us unless there is a crisis. Devices like the Awair air quality tracker are here to make our homes a little more pure and safe.

We may not know this but, indoor air can be 5x more polluted than outside as we are constantly exposed to factors like paint, furniture, carpet, air fresheners, toys, and more. The air quality can have a major influence on allergies, asthma, focus, sleep quality, skin health, and overall well-being apart from just physical health. The Awair 2nd-edition air quality monitor can track it all for you and even give you personalized recommendations to improve the air in your space. The smart device records the 5 most important factors that affect your health like fine dust, chemicals, CO2, humidity, and temperature to give you a report straight on your phone with changes we can make to up the quality.

The Awair Score is a color-coded scale that lets you know the quality of your air and what changes you must make to improve it. The scale is from 0 to 100 with 0 being poor air quality and 100 being very healthy. It is compatible with smart home devices like Ecobee, Google Home and Alexa so it seamlessly integrates itself in your ecosystem. You can control it via voice commands or an app on your phone when you aren’t home. Even the physical monitor is designed to match all interior styles with its wood frame and subtle silver interface. If you wouldn’t drink dirty water then why breathe dirty air?

Designer: Awair

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Design for What You Don’t See

Posted on 18/12/2017 by Troy Turner

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Think you’re protected from polluted air when you’re in the comfort of home? Think again! From cooking residue to fungal spores, research has shown that indoor air can even be worse than outside… and an extreme trigger for asthma problems. Designed with this in mind, Evalo is a simplistic smart device that helps parents keep these triggers to a minimum.

Evals monitors and identifies four distinct indoor air variables that can potentially contribute to the development of asthma symptoms including: particulate matter (PM 2.5µm³), toxic gases (VOC’s), temperature and humidity. Compact and discrete, it’s right at home on any shelf or desk top whether it’s the toy room or living room. Working in tandem with an app on the user’s smartphone, it can deliver real-time air quality results, suggest lifestyle changes for improvement, and track progress over time. The result isn’t just easy breathing for those with asthma, but a healthier environment for the entire family!

Designer: Luke Pennifold

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