Comments on: Cyclops AP280 USB Mini Ionizer / Air Purifier Review http://the-gadgeteer.com/2004/07/27/cyclops_ap280_usb_mini_ionizer_air_purifier_review_/ Gadget reviews and news by Julie Strietelmeier and friends since 1997 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:52:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: whitegoldwielder http://the-gadgeteer.com/2004/07/27/cyclops_ap280_usb_mini_ionizer_air_purifier_review_/comment-page-1/#comment-20093 whitegoldwielder Tue, 03 Aug 2004 06:14:10 +0000 #comment-20093 True ... until you visit London (or better yet, live close by for a few years) ... you find a city with as much culture but ... cleaner, quieter, more polite, just as exciting ... and only a short distance to Paris, and the rest of Europe. Give me London and you can have NYC ... and no, I'm not a transplanted European -- I grew up here and went to school here!! True … until you visit London (or better yet, live close by for a few years) … you find a city with as much culture but … cleaner, quieter, more polite, just as exciting … and only a short distance to Paris, and the rest of Europe. Give me London and you can have NYC … and no, I’m not a transplanted European — I grew up here and went to school here!!

]]> By: Judie http://the-gadgeteer.com/2004/07/27/cyclops_ap280_usb_mini_ionizer_air_purifier_review_/comment-page-1/#comment-20092 Judie Fri, 30 Jul 2004 03:43:20 +0000 #comment-20092 Whitegold - I just returned from a New York (Manhattan) trip tonight, and I would have to agree with you that if ever there was an area that could benefit from ionization - this is it. What a great city, though! :D Whitegold – I just returned from a New York (Manhattan) trip tonight, and I would have to agree with you that if ever there was an area that could benefit from ionization – this is it. What a great city, though! :D

]]> By: whitegoldwielder http://the-gadgeteer.com/2004/07/27/cyclops_ap280_usb_mini_ionizer_air_purifier_review_/comment-page-1/#comment-20091 whitegoldwielder Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:48:54 +0000 #comment-20091 Yes, both Sharper Image and Brookstone collect particles on internal baffles. Brookstone does have a fan to circulate the cleaned air, while Sharper Image depends on the "ionic wind" to do it. It's amazing, when you clean the filters, how much there is in the air ... I'm amazed that it doesn't ultimately clog up our computers circuit boards! Yes, both Sharper Image and Brookstone collect particles on internal baffles. Brookstone does have a fan to circulate the cleaned air, while Sharper Image depends on the “ionic wind” to do it.

It’s amazing, when you clean the filters, how much there is in the air … I’m amazed that it doesn’t ultimately clog up our computers circuit boards!

]]> By: JohnKes http://the-gadgeteer.com/2004/07/27/cyclops_ap280_usb_mini_ionizer_air_purifier_review_/comment-page-1/#comment-20090 JohnKes Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:14:42 +0000 #comment-20090 Old style ionizers from the 80's used to have fans to blow the ionized air out. Particles would end up stuck to the walls, which I suppose is better than in your lungs. Manufacturers never mentioned that you would have to clean the walls periodically. The Sharper Image Ionic Breeze seems to collect the particles on metal plates inside the unit (as seen on TV). Old style ionizers from the 80′s used to have fans to blow the ionized air out. Particles would end up stuck to the walls, which I suppose is better than in your lungs. Manufacturers never mentioned that you would have to clean the walls periodically.

The Sharper Image Ionic Breeze seems to collect the particles on metal plates inside the unit (as seen on TV).

]]> By: whitegoldwielder http://the-gadgeteer.com/2004/07/27/cyclops_ap280_usb_mini_ionizer_air_purifier_review_/comment-page-1/#comment-20089 whitegoldwielder Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:54:39 +0000 #comment-20089 Actually, since I live and work in Manhattan, where the air is as clean as the streets :p , I have an ionization filter at home and at work ... big ones. They do have suction filters and I can tell you from the dirt I remove from them every day that they are very effective (and that NYC air is a disaster -- as a medical friend said "if you don't filter the air with your filter ... you filter it with your built-in filter -- your lungs!"). Anyway, it seems that one of the issues I ran across is that two places where we can't have a filter nearby are in a car and in an airplane (I do a lot of traveling). Both Sharper Image and Brookstone sell the big filters, but Brookstone also has a "mini travel filter" that is battery operated and hangs around your neck ... it strikes me that the Cyclops would work wonderfully on an airplane, so your laptop could power it ... all you need is a cord to hang it around your neck!! Anyway, my thoughts: air purification is vital and this may not be such a crazy idea after all. Actually, since I live and work in Manhattan, where the air is as clean as the streets :p , I have an ionization filter at home and at work … big ones. They do have suction filters and I can tell you from the dirt I remove from them every day that they are very effective (and that NYC air is a disaster — as a medical friend said “if you don’t filter the air with your filter … you filter it with your built-in filter — your lungs!”).

Anyway, it seems that one of the issues I ran across is that two places where we can’t have a filter nearby are in a car and in an airplane (I do a lot of traveling). Both Sharper Image and Brookstone sell the big filters, but Brookstone also has a “mini travel filter” that is battery operated and hangs around your neck … it strikes me that the Cyclops would work wonderfully on an airplane, so your laptop could power it … all you need is a cord to hang it around your neck!!

Anyway, my thoughts: air purification is vital and this may not be such a crazy idea after all.

]]> By: Julie http://the-gadgeteer.com/2004/07/27/cyclops_ap280_usb_mini_ionizer_air_purifier_review_/comment-page-1/#comment-20088 Julie Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:12:40 +0000 #comment-20088 Post your comments here on the Cyclops AP280 USB Mini Ionizer / Air Purifier review. <a href="http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/cyclops-usb-air-purifier-review.html">http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/cyclops-usb-air-purifier-review.html</a> Just click the POST REPLY button on this page. Post your comments here on the Cyclops AP280 USB Mini Ionizer / Air Purifier review.

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