# Ionic Breeze

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ionic-breeze/201571>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 14, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ionic-breeze/201571 "2003-09-14T15:13:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![SkyBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@SkyBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkyBum)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ionic-breeze/201571/1 "2003-09-14T15:13:06Z")

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Do those Ionic Breeze air purifiers in the Sharper Image catalogs really justify the high price or are they just pretty little high tech toys for rich people?

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**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ionic-breeze/201571/2 "2003-09-14T15:24:45Z")

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The latter. I’m convinced that a TV does a better job of removing airborne contaminants.

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=178367&highlight=ionic](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=178367&highlight=ionic)

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=157770&highlight=ionic](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=157770&highlight=ionic)**(Read Boyo Jim’s post)**

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=150971&highlight=ionic](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=150971&highlight=ionic)

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=147257&highlight=ionic](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=147257&highlight=ionic)

There’s more, but I think that’ll do.

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**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ionic-breeze/201571/3 "2003-09-14T15:43:09Z")

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Wow, **voltaire** beat me to it. My husband’s a mechanical engineer, and he told me that you’d do just as well to leave your TV on and wipe the dust off the screen periodically!

Any entertainment you receive is just a bonus :).

(“I’m not just reading the SDMB, honey…I’m purifying the air!”)

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**Author:** ![SkyBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@SkyBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkyBum)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ionic-breeze/201571/4 "2003-09-14T15:44:45Z")

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Hmmmmm…your post reminded me of another little high tech item called the Search button.

Thanks.