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Sharper Image Ionic Breeze - Product Review
After hearing all the rave, seeing the infomercials and
advertisements, and fielding questions from our customers about The
Sharper Image Design's Ionic Breeze Quadra air purifier and
trying to understand how it cleans the air with minimal power
consumption, we were excited to get our hands on a unit and see for
ourselves how it stacked up against other
air purifiers.
We found it ironic that the Ionic BreezeŽ lacked the two things
customers generally have the most concern for: noise and filter
replacement cost. This immediately concerned us because, in their
simplest form, air purifiers are nothing more than mechanical
machines that are built to cycle the air in a single room environment.
The Ionic BreezeŽ has no fan to cycle air. Most of the noise and the
power consumption of our other air purifiers generates from the fan.
Simply put, you must circulate the air to clean it.
The collection rods on the Ionic BreezeŽ that are said do the heavy
cleaning, fill up almost instantly. Once the surface area on the
rods is full, there is nowhere for allergen and other particulate to
go except back into the air.
Furthermore, it came to our attention that in a recent independent
test, the Ionic BreezeŽ came in last. Our findings are concurrent
with the independent test; the Ionic BreezeŽ is extremely
ineffective in reducing airborne allergen and particulate from the
air in your home.
Additionally, we found that Ionic BreezeŽ produces ozone. Unlike
many of our competitors, we find that ozone generators produce
harmful emissions and pose a significant deterrent to air quality.
If our word is not sufficient evidence of the dangers of ozone
generators click here to read what the EPA has to say about ozone
generators that are sold as air purifiers. While The Sharper ImageŽ
dispels that the Ionic BreezeŽ is not an ozone machine, we frown
upon any machine that dispenses ANY ozone into the air you breathe.
(The only unit we offer that uses ozone is the Blueair 501 and 402,
both of which use ozone as a pre-filter and effectively capture all
ozone in the HEPA and carbon filters)
In summary, The Sharper ImageŽ is a wonderful marketing company that
does a excellent job of
marketing consumer products, and in
designing the Ionic BreezeŽ, The Sharper ImageŽ did a great job of
addressing the two most frequent customer concerns: noise and filter
replacement cost. Unfortunately, while addressing the above
concerns, they left out the two most important elements of an air
purifier: a fan and a quality filter.
We are very pleased that The Sharper ImageŽ has a 60 day return
policy because we're definitely taking ours back, and we recommend
that you do the same. If you have already purchased an Ionic
BreezeŽ, we recommend you do what hundreds of our other customers
have done and return it. If you are considering purchasing a
quality, room specific air purifier, do your homework and do not
purchase the Ionic BreezeŽ.
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