When everyone is obsessed with achieving optimal health, the air in our homes should be just as scrutinised as the food we eat or the exercise we do. Even as our lives are squeezed into islands of efficiency, we’re also ensconcing ourselves inside houses that can act like traps for pollutants, making the air inside much more toxic than the world outside. From pet fur and manufactured building materials to the simple act of cooking, indoor living has brought a flotilla of airborne enemies into our private kingdoms. Luckily, there’s a hero waiting in the wings: air purifiers. With their arsenal of filters and technology, they’re ready to be your personal purgatory, removing all those airborne enemies from your castle. Welcome to the RING of champions.
Quietly confident, and with nothing to prove, the Levoit Core 400S Smart Air Purifier marches to the ring with an understated aesthetic and an impressive roundhouse punch. With an elevated parabolic pedestal base and a top-mounted circle of vents crowned with a matte black ring, sporting touch controls to enable the fight, the 400S doesn’t just blend in with your interior; it makes your air look better, too. While the purifier may be lifting with both hands, the rotating, colour-ringed central display lets you know whether the battle is going well. Indicating the status of your indoor air with a glance, it reports the current air quality as a colour code: blue for good, yellow for fair, orange for poor.
But the real trick of the Core 400S is its three-ring circus of filtration: a pre-filter ring, an inner ring of activated carbon, and an outer ring of particle filter, all designed to stomp on particulates and VOCs, as well as dust and odours. And it’s got a replacement filter that won’t cost you a fortune. The Core 400S is the people’s air-filtration scrapper, waging war on contaminants so that you don’t have to fight an expensive battle to get clean air.
Smaller quarters get the Levoit Core 300S, which incorporates the big brother’s purification punch in a smaller body, made for the mountains and optimised for the boxing ring, where most of its competition costs significantly more yet lacks either of those qualities or the aesthetic. It’s nearly silent but can ramp up its efforts when the air quality takes a nosedive without you knowing a thing.
In a clean break with tradition, the Coway Airmega IconS comes to the ring in a neutral beige tone, daring to believe that an air purifier might not only purify but beautify. This contender not only cleans your air – it also enhances your décor, coming with a shelf for wireless charging devices to add a little more functionality to its alluring form.
And so, moving to the greener side of purification, the Neo Px offers a new path to clean air. Courtesy the designers, Neoplants.As a potted pothos, the Neo Px might appear to be little more than a decorative statement. As a bio-engineered element of purification, on the other hand, the pothos digests VOCs using engineered soil bacteria – though again, how effective it might be, is something the science can’t yet guarantee.
Air purifiers sit like pool guards watching for toxins, yetecome to the water without knowing how to swim. Some VOCs and particulatematter they can fight, others they cannot. They can’t take on CO2. Whenshopping for an air purifier, you need to consider filters, room size,controls and design. You have to choose your champion.
And so we look to these tech talismans for purity of air, but the ancient tradition of throwing open a casement reminds us that nature’s purge is mightily powerful and humbling. In our struggle for the breath of life, our strategies for clean air must be as mobile as our surroundings.
So, as we close the ring door on our tour of the purifighters, remember this: the search for clean air is a quest, not a victory. Whether high-tech or humble, our efforts to improve the quality of our living space are worthwhile, and in the ring of air purification every fighter arrives with a fighting chance. May the air in your home be as vibrant and healthy as the breath you take.
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