Pollution: windows equipped with air purifiers

The innovation of the day is the frenzy around air purifiers.

After traditional devices, we are starting to integrate technology everywhere: from windows to radiators, including paintings.

We have said it often enough: open the windows, ventilate!

Because indoor air is often more polluted than outdoor air.

Except that with the current cold and the psychosis of the Covid, many prefer to opt for an air purifier.

Result: we have never seen so many innovations in the field.

Windows are starting to be marketed with the purification function directly integrated into the uprights or into the roller shutter box.

This kills two birds with one stone: you filter the outside air as soon as it enters, and you renew the indoor air rather than recycling it.

It requires a whole installation, it must be expensive.

Yes, that's the big flaw.

But above all, we try to make these devices invisible, rather than having something nasty in the room like today.

This is why we are also starting to see radiators or buffets that integrate air purification.

Some even go very far, like Sauberair which compresses the entire mechanism in less than 10 cm of thickness.

This allows the device to be hung on the wall by passing it off as a painting.

We are also starting to see miniature air purifiers.

Like that, you can always have them with you.

Some look like portable speakers.

We put them on the desk to have clean air all around you.

Others are worn as a necklace or as a brooch.

LG has even just presented a mask with an integrated air purifier.

However, it remains to validate the effectiveness of these devices.

We remember that ANSES (the National Health Security Agency) had already been very critical of those of the previous generation.