Baby Climo air purifier is adorable, possibly deadly

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.

[Via Popgadget]

[mushrooshi @ Jan 29th 2008 7:46PM]

so i herd u liek mudkip air purifeirz?

[Miles @ Jan 29th 2008 7:55PM]

I was going to say the same exact thing

[mushrooshi @ Jan 29th 2008 7:59PM]

Great minds think alike much?

[Slashy The Clown @ Jan 29th 2008 7:55PM]

That is so cool! Unfortunately, my newborn won't fit in it...

[Thomas Bags @ Jan 29th 2008 8:12PM]

Mud Kip?

[Fernando @ Jan 29th 2008 8:43PM]

AL GORE

[Samurai Jack @ Jan 29th 2008 9:27PM]

Nah, it's totally a Chinchou without the antennae...

[brandon_r87 @ Jan 29th 2008 10:01PM]

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.

[01.moore @ Jan 29th 2008 11:17PM]

I, for one, love the pleasant smell of ozone. I don't know what all the fuss is about.

[DT @ Jan 30th 2008 12:16AM]

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 :)

[packrat @ Jan 30th 2008 3:10AM]

If you remember your high school chemestry, O3 breaks down into O2 since the free radical is so unstable

[CanCar @ Jan 30th 2008 9:52AM]

Not all are ozone free. So, we read well before buying one.

[Guy @ Jan 30th 2008 10:07AM]

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.