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Chi Ionizer

Personal Fresh Air

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This is a little device you wear around your neck in smog conditions or on an airplane. It is said to generate negative ions, and I believe it. When you turn it on, you see a little pulsating orange light inside and it has a slightly mechanical seashore smell to it. When I wear it, I swear I feel better. Here's what the company says about it:

"A powerful stream of over 70 trillion ions per second . . . sets up a strong electrodynamically driven air flow, drawing pollutants into the unit intake grill and ejecting purified air from the central part of the screen at a velocity of over 100 feet per minute . . . (Wearing it around your neck) . . . the negative ion stream flows directly toward the head allowing you to breathe in a continuous supply of healthful, ionized air...

Negative ion generators are not embraced by at least some members of the established medical community, but my appreciation of the Ionizer is not rooted in scientific fact, but rather intuition. Plus the fact that when I turn it on I can smell something like the sea breeze, albeit electronically generated, and I seem to feel good after wearing it on long flights or in traffic. When I head for Europe, I put it around my neck when I get to the airport, flip the switch, and keep it going until I get to my hotel some 12 hours later.
––Lloyd Kahn

Chi Ionizer
$100
Transformation Technologies
877-287-0912

Posted on December 16, 2003 at 03:55 PM