It’s easy to mistake Awair for an audio speaker at first glance; in reality, it’s a smart device that monitors air quality. The box uses a gaggle of onboard sensors to analyze your indoor environment, identifying common pollutants and suggesting changes based on your specific health needs and lifestyle. The manufacturer claims the more you use it, the smarter it gets; and that better still, Awair can interface with some of your existing connected devices to automatically effect remedial changes on your behalf.
Why this matters: Air-quality-monitoring devices aren’t exactly new, nor are they in short supply. Some of the recent ones could even be considered “smart.” The Bluetooth- and Wi-Fi-enabled Awair, however, seems unique in that it can talk to other connected devices and appliances. Moreover, at $199, it is hardly the most expensive device of its kind on the market; some of its dumb peers actually cost more.
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