The Asian Age

Dyson’s fanless purifier has beauty and brains

- FRANCIS D’SA

The Dyson Pure Cool Link Tower air purifier is impressive with looks and performanc­e that will want to flaunt it in your living room. It sports a bladeless fan that combines an air purifier to make a single device do both functions at once.

This model features a tower size, and is around 3.3ft in height. The fans used here are bladeless that are safe, run silent, is powerful and uses the air multiplier technology to drive clean air across the room. You won’t feel a gust of wind, but will find a soothing cool stream of air coming on to your face. The top is detachable and the bottom has the entire brains behind the performanc­e. It features low velocity fan that sucks in air from all around it ( 360degrees) and blows it upwards. Just before the fan is a patented cylindrica­l air filter that comprises of three layers— a prefilter to block coarse particles, an activated carbon filter for removing odour and a HEPA filter that uses glass as the main element for blocking/ filtering or capturing harmful airborne pollutants such as dust, nitrogen oxides, metals, acid and allergens that are as fine as PM 0.1 or 0.1 microns. Dyson claims the air purifier to purify the air by almost 99.95 per cent.

The air is then circulated to other parts of the room at a 90- degree angle and with an oscillated motion that helps it reach the farthest corners of the room, unlike traditiona­l air purifiers that blow pure air towards the ceiling. Lastly, the air filter needs to be replaced every 6 months and costs ` 2,690.

Installati­on is very simple and takes less than 5 minutes to assemble. Using the bundled IR remote controller or a Wi- Fi connected app, you can take charge of functions such as air speed, timer, oscillatio­n and power, sleep and auto modes. The app controls everyt- hing that the remote does, and additional­ly gives informatio­n about live quality of air indoors and outdoors, and log data over time.

As a comparison with convention­al top- blowing air purifiers, the Dyson is sure to have a better effect because of its longer air throw across the room. The air purifier seems like a great investment is you are looking for a combinatio­n of style and performanc­e in a single unit. However, the asking price of a whopping ` 39,900 makes this out of reach for the common man.

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