With more than a nod to NASA and James Dyson , French designer Mathieu Lehanneur ’s Bel - Air purifying system uses plants to keep the atmosphere inside your theatre clean from nasty pollutants . The dry pint - sized air - filtration arrangement do as a miniature greenhouse , strip the benzine , formaldehyde and trichloroethane from inside your home using three natural filter .
The Bel - Air employ the leaves and root of the plant and a humid bath to bare the pollutants from the air and purify it . The idea came from industrial plant research done by NASA back in the Eighties when they were looking for a way to keep their astronaut safe from the polymer - saturated environs bump in blank space travelling .
Lehanneur developed the filter - gratis filter alongside Harvard scientist David Edwards , and describes his invention as being “ to the American and Asiatic common filter convenience what Dyson is to regular vacuum cleanser . ”
The Bel - Air is presently uncommitted as a paradigm , and is expect to go into product in 2009 , but Lehanneur would like vendee to screen his machine and report back so that the finished clause will be even better . You will be able to see it at MoMA in New York in February 2008 , as part of the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition . [ Dezeen ]
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