Living and surviving the city

I stumbled upon the 3D printing technology during my search for a tool that would help me to create the Perfect Air Pollution Protection (PAPP). I immersed my self and started to deepen the necessary skills in electronics, mechanical design and mechanical engineering. The 3D printing universe is really great and really vast. I am publishing some of my work on the Facebook Page facebook.com/PandoraMoonDesign . Have a look on it and guess why I became so fascinated by this universe. Michal

Did it happen to you that you went to visit someone and notice little things in the apartment that are 'not OK' ....little things like a picture hanging a little bit off, a spider web, some tooth paste on the sink, dirty window and so on. Nothing serious. If it is a close relative you can afford to ask about it and you get some answer like this: I did not saw it! It was always like this! There is no point to clean the sink because kids mess it up each time! It takes too much effort to clean that window so we live with it as is! The phenomenon the homeowner experiences is called ' Mental block ' it is due to subconscious erasing of reality that causes you distress or unwanted feelings. It is a mental mechanism that causes  people involved in horrible situations not to remember details afterwards. Subconscious, brain chooses to block the information that causes pain or discomfort. The same thing happens with us when we live with the air pollution. You can sme...

I red this article recently http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42199200 and it was immediately clear to me who the  benefiters of PAPP are. In the same time, the article proposes that covering half of your face with a scarf could help. I do not dispute that. However how effective placing a simple piece of 'cloth' over the face sounds, I would not bet the life of my child  on it. This particular article is dealing with the low air temperature a person is taking in which affects the persons health and/or comfort. That's a point where PAPP could help. By means of technology the air could be treated more complex than just simple  filtering. Heating is one of the options. By bringing the temperature closer to nominal levels wearer will have more comfort and in this case also health benefits. On broader scale, PAPP could not only stop the environment from triggering a shock but prevent the outbreak of the disease at first place. Asthma is known to be one of the sym...

The question is, does air pollution affect other organs, apart form lungs, too ? Of course it does! Let's think about, a fully clothed person exposes two parts of the body: Hands and the head. We will not talk about the hands, they are sturdy part of the body and can handle a beating from exterior. It is the head, precisely the face organs that are suffering also. In this article I will have closer look on the facial skin , skin is the larges organ of the human body and supposed to protect us against external influences. In today's cities it is attacked by toxic artificial chemicals and nano scale particles and was newer naturally meant to withstand such poisonous conditions. Starting from congested pores to serious allergic reactions all this and probably combination of those are the result. The beauty conscious about us, I don't want to say the women, can tell how difficult it is now days to take care of it and how badly affected it is by air born toxins . Agi...

Finally I came to conclusion that non on the commercially available solutions are fitting my lifestyle or expectation. What a shock! Most of them have following negatives in common: Covering your lower half of your face causing you can't recognize the wearers facial expression The eyes are not protected, sore eyes and allergies are the common result of pollution exposure You can not effectively speak while wearing them because they are dimming the sound of your voice The sealing is bad, not uniform and depends how meticulous you put the mask on and wear it While you opening your mouth for what ewer reason you are loosing the seal on massive scale Beards are off limits Any facial expression causes mask leakage Nothing (except the smell from outside) alerts you that your mask is leaking The mask causes accumulation of humidity, sweat and human fluids inside Maintenance is not something the common manufacturer had thought about. You can clean the body (not the filter) of...