Paul McDevitt
A pine tree in your pocket
A BREATH of fresh air can be hard to come across in the city. Thankfully, Fred Riley discovers just the thing. Treepex in Tbilisi, Georgia, has a device it markets as a way to “breathe your own forest”. It resembles a cross between an e-cigarette and scuba apparatus, minus the .
The device converts polluted air into “fresh, mineral-enriched air”. Feedback had assumed that the problem with smog was that it was already far too enriched with unwanted compounds, but what do we know? At the heart of the device (or to use the promotional video’s terminology, “the brain”)…
