Daan air purifier kills the unbearable stench of rotting fish in style

Finally, purifying the air in your home doesn't have to make your pad look like it was ripped from the pages of the SkyMall catalog. If you put a value on looks (and you do, don't you?) you'll be pleased to know that a Korean designer has created the Daan -- a new purifier that gets the job done while actually looking somewhat stylish. The devices suck up dust and cat hair in a 161 sq. ft. space, but are modular in nature, allowing you to stack multiple units on a stand for cleaning larger spaces (they can also be separated and moved to smaller rooms). Home electronics-maker Coway will apparently manufacture the device, but we don't have a word on street date or price. Sure, they may still be killing you slowly, but at least they'll look good while doing it.

[Thanks, Tony]

[Nick @ Aug 7th 2008 1:02PM]

meh this sucks

[5thMeridian @ Aug 7th 2008 1:09PM]

Sucks dust that is

[neofolklore @ Aug 8th 2008 7:57AM]

I think RAID 0 in an air purifier is a novel idea actually.

[Kaiser-Machead @ Aug 7th 2008 1:07PM]

To fail

[coffee @ Aug 7th 2008 1:08PM]

Make one that sucks up the whole cat, not just the hair, I might actually buy that.

[Kaiser-Machead @ Aug 7th 2008 1:10PM]

I'd like to see The Who walk in and destroy this thing.

[bob sakamano @ Aug 7th 2008 1:30PM]

161 sq ft? thats double the size of my nyc 2 bedroom apartment!

[OziD @ Aug 7th 2008 3:28PM]

how high is the ceiling? you might have rented out a room in a barbie dream house.

[quomen @ Aug 7th 2008 1:31PM]

The only reason that you were born is because your dog beat me up the stairs.

[whowhatme @ Aug 7th 2008 1:33PM]

this would be handy, because my room smells really bad... :(

[From My Cube @ Aug 7th 2008 1:33PM]

why do you have to rip on skymall? Its a much better read than that useless "saftey pamphlet"....

[Jon Acheson @ Aug 7th 2008 1:59PM]

I have a strange urge to whale on it with drumsticks.

[Hotrod @ Aug 7th 2008 2:10PM]

That round one looks like it has the iMac stand.

[SFO Kevin @ Aug 7th 2008 2:28PM]

Didn't Sharper Image try and pawn off a similar product?... Class Action Suit... Admitted the product was bogus... Now in Bankrupcy...

[John DeVries Revival Now @ Aug 7th 2008 2:50PM]

Well, these are a breath of fresh air.

[The Dude @ Aug 7th 2008 3:06PM]

Waay too goo Daan.

[identitycrisis @ Aug 7th 2008 3:48PM]

Actually, the product name is Daan, and the company name's Woongjin Coway.

[alphaxion @ Aug 7th 2008 5:01PM]

It really isn't healthy trying to live in a sterile environment - weakens your immune system and you'll be at a higher risk of developing an allergy.

The amount of clean freaks that I know who are constantly ill depresses me - by all means don't live in squalor but don't sterilise your environment, a little bit of dust n dirt contributes to a healthy body!

Then again, it does mean you end up working more while others are off ill due to their substandard immune system.

[Graham @ Aug 7th 2008 7:09PM]

Sucks cat hair from 161 sq feet huh? Well square root of that is about 12.6 Im going to put a ball of cat hair 12 feet away from one of them and watch it try and suck it across the floor.

[mathisfun @ Aug 12th 2008 11:47AM]

Try ~7.2 feet. Not saying that it will suck up a ball of cat hair from that distance either, but check your math next time :)

[John @ Aug 7th 2008 11:32PM]

161 sq ft? Maybe I'll get one when I live in a 2-dimensional house.