IQAir Atem Desk Air Purifier for Home, Office, Desktop, Small Room up to 150 sq ft, HyperHEPA Filter for Bacteria, Viruses, Allergens, Pets, Asthma, Pollen, Dust, Swiss Design, Made in Germany, White

I own two IQAir Health Mate Pros, which are the most effective air cleaners available, but a little bulky for trying to take on an airplane. When this came out, I had to give it a try. Happy to say that I've traveled with it three times, just packed in a bag, and it has given me blissful sleep on the pillows, sheets, and mattresses where I was staying.You need to set this up close to your head. It's not meant to clean the room, but to produce a zone of clean air around your head. On the highest of the three settings, it's audible, but that's about all. On the two lower settings the sound is barely noticeable.The quirks: (it wouldn't be IQAir without quirks) First, you plug the cord into the side of the unit and into the wall. You may need an extension cord in some hotel rooms, to run the power from the outlet to your face. The cord is reasonably long, but for some hotel rooms may just not be long enough. So bring an extension cord.The stand is actually cool. But, when you attach the disc-shaped unit to the stand, it doesn't really CLICK into place. Rather, it SLIPS into place. Result: If you try to pick up and move the unit, the stand may fall off. It'd be nice if it had some kind of positive attachment to the lozenge.I have no idea, obviously, how long the filter will last. I do know that I'm really glad to have this, and believe it will open up a world of travel that I thought I had lost.Edit: After a few months of ownership, I decided to try using this in my bedroom, every night, to help me sleep. The good news is that it works as well at home as it did in a hotel room. The bad news is that the filters don't last long at all. I run it on the highest speed, 3, for about 8 hours each night, and after about a month I'm starting to clog up and wake up coughing. Nor is it a slow decline. Rather, one night I'm fine, one night I struggle, and then it's hopeless. Too bad. But if you look at the filters you can see that they are rather small, without much surface area, and so it's no surprise that they fill up quickly.Once again, others whose allergies are somewhat less savage than mine may get more out of each filter. But this will be my travel filter rather than every day. I will not reduce the rating, because this was an unknown rather than an expectation, and this will still be the ultimate travel air purifier. But if you use it for travel, you may want to track the number of hours use, and when you get near to 250, swap it out if you're about to go on the road.Edit #2: The really interestingly-shaped filter sits inside this thing wrapped around the top and the back side, which I realized might cause problems with filter longevity. Why? Because dust can settle out of the air directly onto the filter, by traveling down. Unlike the big tall house-sized units that I also reviewed. So I started putting a plastic bag over the unit when not in use.Good news! Doing this about doubles the filter life for me. Going from one month to two months per filter is definitely worth it, given that all I do is put a trash bag over the thing. It still costs me about a dollar a night, but my sleep is so much better that it's worth it.Edit #3: After about a year of use I noticed that filter life was starting to tank. When you change a filter, you'll notice a second, smaller lift-off cover that has a little curved piece of styrofoam under it. This is the muffler, to reduce the already miniscule amount of sound the unit produces. Trying to clean this made it worse, but removing it entirely resolved the problem, and the unit is barely louder. So you may want to consider ditching this. It doesn't seem to be a replacement part, but I plan to go to the hardware store, buy matching foam, and cut out a replacement. I'll let you know.

Okay, I have to admit, I had an EXTREMELY hard time dropping $400 on a travel air purifier but I am SO GLAD I DID. I also have the IQ Air health pro plus running full time at home and I can now say I am 100% IQ Air loyal.I suffer from allergies and asthma (the send you to the hospital for O2 kind) and my major triggers are pollen, cats, and dust. I travel frequently for work an hotel rooms are quite often some of the word places for dust (don’t believe me? Just look under the bed, or better yet, don’t 😂). One hotel in particular that I stay at frequently is HORRIBLE for dust and is also right next to some agricultural land. My first stay with the Atem was life changing - and the trees were in full bloom! I get to the hotel as soon as I can and set the Atem up and run it on 100% while I go out for a few hours to grab dinner (if your allergies and asthma are really bad I recommend the Cambridge mask company pro series masks to filter everything while you are on the go - yeah you have to wear it and some people look at you weird, but hey, it beats being in the hospital!). When I come back to the room the air had bee turned over a few times and it is much cleaner than before. I then set it up as intended on 30-50% and aim it straight at my face and enjoy my own personal clean tropical breeze! Okay, maybe it isn’t always tropical, but it is the cleanest air you will ever breathe!I also used the Atem when we were staying at a friend’s house that had cats (one of my major triggers) and the cats usually live in the guest room 😬. Ran the Atem on a little higher speed than usual and had ZERO issues!One thing that I will recommend is to keep some chapstick and maybe a humidifier (depending on where you are) on hand to keep you from drying out since you will have a breeze on you all night.

We bought this product after much research hoping to have a unit which would clear a small area of VOC (dryer sheets, fabric softener, perfumes, deoderants, etc...). We know the filter shipped with the Atem was not designed to help with VOC so be also bought the replacement activated charcoal filter which should help with VOC. What a huge dissapointment when we turned it on and "Morning Mist" (name your poison) wafted from the machine. Maybe they dip it in something to cover the smell of the plastic or circuitry or maybe the filter has a scent impregnated in it to give the impression of "fresh air" but if you are trying to avoid or rid your personal space of chemical smells, this will not do it but actually make it worse. We are willing to spend just about anything to help with this problem and the Atem is about 10x more expensive than all other personal air purifiers. It probably does a good job of filtering the air from dust and pollen but it does emit a smell (think truck stop urinal cakes) that obviously nobody on the design team had an issuse with. We had high hopes. It is nicely designed and small enought to travel with but the toxic smell is a deal breaker and headache maker.

I was undecided between this and the Dyson personal air purifyer. Can't say whether or not I made the right choice, but I'm certainly satisfied. I ultimately went with this due to the design. I am extremely sensitive to pollen and dust, and I was looking for something that would focus air directly at me, and this does just that. Despite sending a concentrated jet of air right at me this air purifyer is much quieter than expected. You get what you pay for a I suppose! The other reason I chose this over the dyson is that I plan to bring it to work after this quarantine ends. This design is stylish, and I wouldn't mind having it on my desk. While the dyson also looks nice, I don't like the idea of coworkers walking by and noticing a nearly $500 piece of equipment sitting on my desk (everyone knows dyson products are highly expensive). Happy I pulled the trigger on this one. I'll probably buy a second once I bring this one to work.