Baby Climo air purifier is adorable, possibly deadly
By Nilay Patel 
posted Jan 29th 2008 7:41PM
posted Jan 29th 2008 7:41PM
If you're not totally swayed by the evidence that certain air purifiers cause harmful levels of ozone emissions, why not put your money where your mouth is and stick one by your infant? These Baby Climo units from Takara Tomy filter out bacteria, mold, and odors, all while using just a tiny amount of power -- and looking like tiny little ozone-spewing aliens. Japan-only, but it looks like importers have 'em for the brave at $229.
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so i herd u liek mudkip air purifeirz?
I was going to say the same exact thing
Great minds think alike much?
That is so cool! Unfortunately, my newborn won't fit in it...
Mud Kip?
AL GORE
Nah, it's totally a Chinchou without the antennae...
I've spent my entire life guarding against fan death, and now you tell me I have to protect against air purifiers too! To be safe, I think I'm going to rid myself of air conditioning and heating as well.
I, for one, love the pleasant smell of ozone. I don't know what all the fuss is about.
Just the harmful free radical formed when O3 degenerates into O2 and O-, which alters the base pairs in your DNA, raising your chances of cancer. So besides for that, it really is no big fuss. I like that smell too :)
If you remember your high school chemestry, O3 breaks down into O2 since the free radical is so unstable
Not all are ozone free. So, we read well before buying one.
Alright to clarify some crap about ozone...
Ozone is used in hospitals to disinfect bacteria, mold, etc. (airborne or otherwise) in operating rooms, so their claims to "clean the air" are true (if it produces any levels of ozone) - since it decays quickly into diatomic oxygen in a contained environment and thus cannot be stored, the hospitals have an ozone generator on hand for decontaminating.
Hospitals are not the only places that use it, the food industry, bio/chem labs... lots of places cause ozone is VERY good at disinfecting and decontaminating... so that white cloud of crap you see in the movies when people go into a decontamination chamber... yeah, that's usually ozone. However, inhaled, in large amounts - it's deadly.
Ozone itself is not a free radical, it reacts with some free radicals and can also react to form free radicals. Ozone also reacts with UV light... *GASP*!!! that's sunlight!!!! forming OH that helps remove hydrocarbon (anything ending in -ane, -ene, yne) from the air - but! in doing so, produces peroxyacyl nitrates, potential eye & lung irritant
Conclusion - if you want to use these things, make sure you set up a timer, run it afterdark - and don't stick around while it is in use or for the next 2 hours thereafter.