Oxyfit personal oxygen booster a bulky alternative to Perri-air
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted February 16th 2010 2:37PM
posted February 16th 2010 2:37PM
The Earth's atmosphere. what with its twenty percent oxygen an' all, has supported life for millions of years -- but is there a better way? The kids at the Japan Trend Shop certainly think so, and they're currently shilling something called the Oxyfit Mobile Oxygen Supply. Consisting of an electronic oxygen generation pack, a lithium-ion battery for up to 1.5 hours of runtime, oxygen tube, aspirator, and helpful instructions (which are really only helpful if you can read Japanese), this bad boy will ramp up your oxygen intake by half -- and with all the breathing you do, that has to be a good thing. In addition to the nootropic and fatigue-busting effects of the device, the company claims that wearing it will help you lose weight. It remains unclear if this is due to the change in metabolism the extra oxygen brings, or because you're walking around with a 3.3 pound device strapped to your back all day. Yours for a mere $2,681! Hit the source link to get started.
Geez.
@DirtyVegas I can see this being used by grossly overweight nerds that live in their mother's basement.
@Brokinarrow Also - From a personal training perspective, wouldn't it be better to train with LESS oxygen? If your body gets dependent on an oxygen enriched airflow, you won't perform as well in the normal 20% oxygen world we live in.... Where as training with less oxygen, you'd actually be able to perform better in a normal environment...
What does it 'generate' oxygen from?
@jonbruc Fusion.
@jonbruc
It probably gets it from the air. At least that would be the most obvious way. Actually if -as the article says- this increases the amount of oxygen by half that would mean it only goes from 20% to 30% which isn't terribly impressive.
For that much money I can take a trip to a remote island and have an orgy of women breath oxygen into me.
@Hugoneus
Wouldn't you want to "breathe" your "oxygen" into them?
@SolidSnake
Its a mutual thing you know, goes both ways! ;)
Ahhh Spaceballs. One of my favorite movies :D
"Oh NO! She's [Mega Maid] has gone from suck to blow!"
@SpaceGoat
You shouldn't be reading this website if you didn't know what that can of "Perri-Air" was the second it graced your corneas.
@JCA
I knew exactly what it was as soon as I saw it :P
Gym membership; $30. Oxygen backpack; $2681. Looking like a total douche; priceless.
@deepdigits
For everything else, there's Ken MasterCard.
Oh man a Spaceballs reference! Yes!!
May the Schwartz be with youuuuuuuuu....what a woyld what a woyld....
They made fun of bottled water too. Bottled air will be the new fad! Can't believe I was beat to the punch on a Spaceballs reference.
Shit! I hate it when I get my Schwartz twisted!
Could this can replace oxygen bottles for those with COPD/emphysema? With a longer run-time, it may make air travel more practical for those affected.
@jaejae
nope. You can get a liquid oxygen tank that weighs less than one pound that will last longer than 8 hours when set on trigger mode. (gives a burst of O2 each time you take a breath rather than run continuously).
I'm a Respiratory Therapist and got a good laugh at this story. Kinda reminds me of the "oxygen bars" that were the big rage in the 90's. Glad I didn't change my career and invest in one.
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It's fun to make fun of, but I could sure use something like this while running in the winter. Asthma means I can't just breathe the cold air, but whenever I cover my face whatever I'm using inevitably becomes wet from the humidity and at that point it's like trying to breathe through a wet towel, while running.
This seems like it would do more harm than good. The more oxygen you consume the more free radicals are released in your body. The more free radicals you have the quicker you age and the more susceptible you are to things like cancer. We try to increase the amount of antioxidants we intake to counter act all of this.
@baltwade
Not true. This increases the amount of oxygen bound to hemoglobin in the blood. It does not increase the amount of unbound oxygen (O1) or ozone (O3) in the cells. It just make more oxygen bio-available. This is particularly effective with exercise, where you usually have an "oxygen debt." The cellular machinery needs plenty of oxygen to work at its peek efficiency.
Free radical damage occurs as a result of the normal metabolic process going on in each cell. For this reason, you always need to have a good supply of antioxidants from your food or through your body's innate antioxidant producing mechanisms.
@LloydChiro !!This system is absolutely nonsense!!
Not true. The oxygen delivered to your muscles is mostly depending on the effectiveness of your blood circulating system, and to a small part on intrinsic factors of your muscles. The lungs is always extract enough oxygen to saturate the blood hemoglobin at around 98% whether your exercising or not (If you have a lung condition It's another thing though). In the end it all comes down to what stamina you have. How good you are at using the oxygen will determine how big oxygen debt you will have when you stop. If you train a lot your blood system will become more efficient and you will deliver enough oxygen to your muscles for a longer time i.e. better stamina. Adding more oxygen to an untrained individual will not do a thing. Adding more oxygen might only improve the work of a selected few elite-sport individuals in extreme situations when they are exercising on their peak performance and it would probably have to be 100% oxygen and not the 30 or something this system delivers, and the weight this one adds would slow them down more than benefit them. For reff: Medical Physiology: Boron, Boulpaep.
@Jonte81
description sounds like that it will add the pure oxygen so that avaiable oxygen for a person to breath becomes 30%... not adding 30% oxygen. 20 units of oxygen (20%) and 80 untis of nitorgen and others (80%) in the immediate surrounding of your nose... and add 15 units of pure oxygen... total 35 units of oxygen and 80 units of others... oxygen percentage in a person's surrounding becomes 35/115 = about 30%...
It's like a person hook up to oxygen mask when hospital runs stress-test on a person...
@Jonte81 Interesting. Thanks. I don't do EWOT (exercise with oxygen therapy) in my clinic, but I know a few who do. I'll have to take another look at the literature.
MERCHANDIZING.
@Phoenix
OBJECTION!
@Phoenix Hold it !!
@Phoenix
SPACEBALLS THE FLAMETHROWER!!!
How much anti-oxidant tea would I have to drink after wearing an oxygen tank?
@Ducman69 Strap on a tank of green tea.
i dont care what anyone says, make it work as a camelbak and i'd get one... if they were about a thousand dollars cheaper.
My guess is this product originally stemmed from oxygen bars. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_bar) Maybe the idea was that this was to be to oxygen bars what a personal hookah is to a hookah bar. Then somewhere along the way someone decided that it would market better to the athletic types.
This would make a nice training device. Live at high altitude for the benefits in red blood cell count and get the training benefits of living at sea level (you can train harder).
You all do realize that pure oxygen is a rather potent poison? It oxidizes things and creates free radicals that muck up our metabolism if we get too much of it.
@Ed T
It's not pure oxygen, it's concentrated.
This would be great for hangovers. Strap it on before you pass out, and voila no more hangover the next day. And, if in your drunken stupor you forget, at least your hangover will go away faster. I need one of these things...
@astrocramp They sell pure 02 in cans in Japan at most sporting good stores. Costs about 300 - 800 yen (~$3.50 - $9.25) depending on the size of the bottle. Nice after a hittin' the gym or hittin' the sake. For the same money as one of these machines you could buy a couple hundred cans of that O2.
Also, I don't know if this would really be all that good for a hangover. Unless it's electrolyzing water or something I'm guessing all this will really do is harvest oxygen from the ambient air. If you're indoors that means you'll just deplete the local air of oxygen faster. Deep breathing exercises would probably accomplish the same thing...
It's the perfect product for people that are worried about all the CO2 we humans have added to our atmosphere. Especially when it runs off batteries that need to be charged with power from the power plant that contributes to said CO2. Genius. Pure Genius.
I wonder if there is a warning for smokers? Also I find it hard to believe that whole getup only weighs 3.3 pounds, however the link lists it at 1500g.
@(Unverified)
never mind, seems fixed now
Actually, too much oxygen is toxic and does bad things to the respiratory centre in the brain and can cause depression of respiratory drive and build up of CO2 which worsens metabolic acidosis. Also, the amount of oxygen to the muscles depends on the heart's ability to pump blood to the lungs and muscles, and the skeletal muscle makeup (ie. fast-twitch vs slow-twitch fibres) not really the O2 % in the air (unless up high altitudes). So if you want to get fit, train more often, not use O2 cannisters!
@strangetrousers That's only with long term use, not for short bouts of exercise.
Your body would get used to an increased amount of oxygen during workouts, rendering you useless as soon as you need to do something physically demanding without it.
@Nitesh
Fact?
@LloydChiro Not really, just a hypothesis.
I want to know how many calories this air has before i start inhaling it?
Japanese version of the american BONG, so they start with air and premium you have Air-Joint-MIX...Nice 1