Lilbits: Maybe a wearable air purifier that sprays your breath outward isn’t such a great idea in 2022?

1. Jmo, but people that are wearing something like this or an N95 with breather valves, are more likely to do so consistently, and are less likely to catch an airborne disease, so therefore are less likely to spread it to others.

   During the past year (in the US), I’ve been more concerned about protecting myself, my family and anyone that’s immunocompromised. Everyone else was free to continue wearing whatever mask they felt was adequate if they wanted or could’ve just gotten the damn vaccine like most everyone else has..

   Above average quality KN95s (~$3 each) with exhalation valves have served me very well through the past 2 years.

2. I watched the videos on their site. Seems like they only tested the quality of breathed in air using a dummy in a controlled lab environment and not outside in realistic situations.

   If you’re concerned about protecting yourself from air pollution (ie. not source control for viruses) and still being able to breathe well, then just get a mask with an exhalation valve. No batteries needed.

3. I think people are over reacting to this product on account of getting sick with respiratory viruses becoming a sign of moral and spiritual failure, either your own or that of someone around you.
   It still doesn’t make much sense in any situation I can think of compared to just a regular air purifier, p100 respirator, or whatever mask the government swears will make a difference this year.

4. Let’s assume there was no pandemic or it’s over and people have forgotten about seasonal/other viruses could still be transmitted more easily when you’re intentionally blowing it everywhere like a sprinkler, how well would this thing clean the air you’re actually breathing? For example, people wear masks when they’re in smogy/polluted areas.

   My knee jerk reaction to such an open air design for something like this seems like it’ll be fairly ineffective at what it’s supposed to be doing. More of a placebo affect plus face cooler.

   1. Yeah, ignoring how this product is too late, should have pivoted or even cancelled post-2020, without numbers from tests not done by Dyson in real world scenarios, I’m skeptical this improves the air you’re actually breathing much.

      I bet just walking around or even moving your head would cancel out much of the flow of clean air let alone a light breeze/wind.

5. snot cannon 😂

6. Actually it might just work, in my opinion. People have very little attention span and brain bandwidth, if the media will keep talking only about the oh so terrible war in Ukraine everyone will forget that Covid 19 even existed, especially in those countries where mask and vaccine requirements have been already abandoned/relaxed.

7. For the Dyson device and assuming we’re in a pre-pandemic age, how effective would it actually be in purifying the air you’re breathing especially with such an open design? It’s pretty different from a room air purifier that’s running continuously to eventually clean and maintain a room’s air quality.

   Anyway, while I’ve gotten used to wearing masks, I’m still far away from putting on electronic masks/mask-like devices unless I’m pretending to be in a Sci-Fi movie.

   1. Unless those fans are extremely powerful to the point where it’s very uncomfortable, it doesn’t seem the air you’d be breathing would be purified much. I’d like to see an independent test of actual breathed in air quality improvement. Just for curiosity though since I don’t see myself wearing it even if there was no pandemic that this device would likely make worse.

      Regardless, now that we’re in the pandemic era (even when it’s “over”), this product is just badly timed/too late and should probably be cancelled. It’s just shooting your cooties everywhere including your bad breath.

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