Sharper Image Ionic Breeze – Product Review

Sharper Image Ionic Breeze – Product Review

We’ve heard all the ravings, seen the infomercials and advertisements, and fielded questions from our customers about The Sharper Image Design’s Ionic Breeze Quadra Air Purifier. Now that we understand how it cleans the air with minimal power consumption, we are excited to get our hands on a unit and see for ourselves how it stacks up against other air purifiers.

It’s ironic that the Ionic Breeze lacks 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 built to cycle and clean the air in a single room environment. The Ionic Breeze has no fan to cycle air. Most noise and power consumption of other air purifiers originates from the fan. Simply put, you usually have to circulate air to clean it.

The collection rods on the Ionic Breeze that are said to do the heavy cleaning fill up almost instantly. Once the surface area on the rods is full, there is nowhere for allergens and particulates to go except back into the air.

Furthermore, it came to our attention that the Ionic Breeze came in last in a recent independent test. Our findings are concurrent with the independent test; the Ionic Breeze is extremely ineffective in reducing airborne allergen and particulate from the air in your home.

Additionally, we found that Ionic Breeze produces ozone. Unlike many of our competitors, we find that ozone generators release harmful emissions and pose a significant downgrade 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 Image dispels that the Ionic Breeze is not an ozone machine, we frown upon any machine that dispenses ANY ozone into the air you breathe.

In summary, The Sharper Image is a wonderful marketing company that does an excellent job of marketing consumer products. In designing the Ionic Breeze, The Sharper Image did a great job 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 Image has a 60-day return policy because we’re definitely taking ours back. Furthermore, if you, like us, have already purchased an Ionic Breeze, we recommend you do what hundreds of our other customers have done and return it. If you are still considering buying a quality, room-specific air purifier, please do your homework and avoid purchasing the Ionic Breeze.

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