This $199 home air-quality gizmo will tell you to VOC right off "Air. It's all around you. Where you live. Where you work. Where you sleep. But what's really in it?" So begins the video outlining an exciting new product, the Awair, that against all probability is actually a real thing, rather than a brilliantly executed spoof. Pronounced "aware" but with the word "air" at the end, this …
Nope. It was nothing to do with CO
Nope. It is not called The Await
From the link:
"an unexplained outbreak of serious lung disease similar to pneumonia – particularly prevalent among children and pregnant women – had discovered a “significant association” with the use of humidifier disinfectant that was targeted at parents in a country where winters are dry and cold."
Lovely writeup, especially the summation
It requires yet more surface space (when will someone create an internet-connected table to hold all your IoT products?)
It does things that other products in your home already do but not as well and at a much higher cost
It connects to other IoT products for no discernible reason and with no practical outcome
It provides wonderful sounding but ludicrously unlikely scenarios where your life will be improved
It has its own phone app
It's been given over $1m in funding by people who should know better
I really want an article upvote button :)
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It would be a useful device for monitoring many of the airless Corporate conference room located in the dark corners of office building. You know the type of room - they are the ones which can be booked by IT staff.
At least you'd know why you and your colleagues are losing the will to live during yet another international conference call. CO2 levels running at greater than 1200 ppm.
How?
I'm guessing that it gets in touch with its makers and a server owned by them does the job.
This will, of course, stop working as soon as its makers go deservedly titsup.com. What's more useless than an internet-connected air quality meter that texts you alerts? An internet-connected air quality meter that doesn't any more.....
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