2020-04-01 TechLife

AO Air
US$350 | ao-air.com
According to its website AO Air
is functional, fashionable and
future forward, but this
personal air purifier has been
independently tested to be
between five and 50 times
better than any other available
portable purifiers, so if you
want to breathe better air than
your peers, you can’t settle for
anything less. AO Air knows
that even perfect air shouldn’t
get in the way of your looks so
it’s already put its facewear on
the catwalks of New York and
Seoul to make sure all the
people that actually matter,
know that the AO Air mask will
be sci-fi Chic in 2020.

Pawnix
US$200 | pawnix.com
When it comes to high and low
pitched noises, dogs are far
better at hearing than we are,
so there’s every chance that if
we hoomans heard a thunder
clap the way a dog does, we’d
invariably soil ourselves. So
while the PAWNIX Noise
Cancelling Dog headphones
might seem like a ridiculous
tech item, they probably
deserve ca-nine out of 10 for
empathetic design. The
headset works in the same way
as regular noise cancelling
headphones, but Pawnix has
been designed with a mesh
headband that’ll stay on
your pup.

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Dyson Air-Purifier

headphones

Thesoundofsickness:it’slikenoisecancellingforthe coronavirus.

$TBC, ipo.gov.uk/p-ipsum/Case/ApplicationNumber/GB1811994.1

British inventor, Sir James Dyson, is the

man responsible for solving one of the 20th

century’s biggest problems: the vacuum bag

• so we really shouldn’t be too surprised
  that his attention now turns to the current
  critical issue of providing fresh beats and
  fresh air at the same time. A headphone
  patent filed by Dyson in the UK Intellectual
  Property Office reveals that this OBE
  -awarded designer already has a plan for

how he’ll atmospherically control the

portable biosphere of the future. Basically, a

second band in the Dyson headphones sits

over your mouth and pumps out pristine air

from fans in the drivers. Unfortunately the

system has no way of deterring rotten

music from sullying your otherwise sterile

bubble, but this won’t stop these anti-viral

headphones from going viral.

Hapbee

Don’tworry,beHapbee.

US$746, hapbee.com

Are you sometimes angry or sad? Well you

no longer have to be. Hapbee uses heaps of

‘science’ to divert all those negative

emotions you have away so you never have

to feel them again. Simply set the Hapbee

magnetic neckband to Happy, Alert, Desire,

Relaxed, Calm or Sleepy and the ultra low

radio frequency emitted will use almost

undetectable magnetic forces to suck out

any unwanted emotions. Comedian JP

Sears, who is best known for his influential

YouTube video onHow to Become Gluten

Intolerantsaid he thinks everyone at

Hapbee deserves ‘first place’ for a job well

done on the headset... and we couldn’t

agree more. If the US$750 initial price tag

isn’t exclusive enough for you, you’ll be

pleased to know that Hapbee customers

will need to pay a $19 per month

subscription for ongoing access to their

favourite emotions.

A second band in the

Dyson headphones

sits over your mouth

and pumps out

pristine air from fans

in the drivers.