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Designer Dress That Changes Color in Response to Pollution?
In the publicity stunt section, as mentioned on CNN and others, Danish fashion house Diffus has created a designer dress (pictured; photo courtesy Diffus) that changes color in response to levels of pollution. (It actually changes color in response to CO2 levels. As this is fairly constant outdoors, it might not have been the most inspired pollutant to monitor — NO2, NO, CO and dust would all have been more interesting.) Interested readers with a fashion bent can build their own. You need an Arudino open-source hardware board (some sample projects for incorporating Arudino projects can be found here. Then, all you need is an Air Quality Egg Arudino shield kit, which can be purchased from WickedDevices. This can monitor CO, NO2, and NO, with add-ons available for dust, VOC, and Ozone pollutants. (Arudino shields for CO2 are avaiable from other suppliers.) Once you’ve completed your electronics prototype, it’s time to become a fashion designer: there are small “Arudino-like” boards that are designed to be woven into fabrics, like the Adafruit Gemma.… Read the restCreative Solutions to Air Quality
A positive blog One of our vendors (not one of our readers, apparently) complained recently that air quality and air pollution were less than upbeat topics. That’s the traditional ostrich mind set. “Oh air quality, nothing can be done.” We beg to differ. We’ve done many blog articles about how you can use our free app and simple technologies to control your indoor air quality and fight air pollution. But the news has filled recently with stories about how new technologies finding solutions to air pollution. For example, China is considering experimenting with new technologies to spray water from skyscrapers to bring PM 2.5 air pollution levels down to a somewhat safer 35 micograms per m3. (PM 2.5 levels were recently above that level here in Los Angeles on multiple days so maybe we should be spraying water from our downtown skyscrappers out here as well if it would help. Los Angeles is a large geographic area, however, and one wonders how effective spraying in downtown would be.)… Read the restDr. Beak From Rome and the Black Plague, or why having a surgical mask might be handy
This 1656 woodcut (see photo) depicts the plague doctor “Dr. Beak from Rome” (“Doktor Schnabel von Rom”). His bird mask was stuffed with straw, which served as a crude air filter. Medieval artists alternated lampooned him (as here) and later celebrated him as scientific and practical methods of plague control slowly proved themselves over the more superstitious practices of that era. When we got into this we were thinking about how smart homes (and smarter air purification) could reduce dust buildup in our more dusty urban areas (like urban California, Europe, and Asia). While it was obvious there was a lot of dust buildup on furniture, we didn’t realize just how badly air quality fluctuated from day-to-day here. Bird Flu or just poor air quality Earlier this week one of our staff members saw someone walking the streets of Los Angeles with a surgical mask on. He appeared to be from a part of Asia that had experience with bird flu, and wearing surgical masks on the street is more culturally accept there than here.… Read the restRecent Posts
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