Technology company LG is now developing smart desks that can purify the air.

Air purifiers seem boring… so why not turn them into functional furniture?

While it might seem unlikely that a company like LG would dabble in furniture, its functional furniture line Aero makes a bit of sense. At IFA 2022 in Berlin, LG Aero “blurs the line between elegant furniture and advanced air purification, offering a design that can meet individual preferences, 360-degree air filtration and user-friendly features,” the company said. .

Designer: LG

Meet the PuriCare Objet Collection Aero Furniture series (or Aero for short), LG’s tabletop collection of air purifiers. Designed to act as a 360-degree air purifier, Aero can be placed anywhere in your room and comes with an LG Ultra-fine filter, Dust Collector Filter and Deodorization Filter, ensuring clean air is delivered throughout your room. . The table comes in three color variations and in both oval or round shapes.

Although it would be a disadvantage to call the PuriCare Objet Collection Aero Furniture series only table-shaped air cleaners. The Memphis 2.0-ish furniture pieces also have built-in mood lights and you can even charge your phone/headphones using the disk-shaped integrated wireless charging zone on the table. The wattage of the wireless charging has yet to be revealed, although LG says the cleaner can be controlled using a series of buttons on the underside of the desk, while the mood light itself can be operated using the LG ThinQ app. My biggest concern is that, although the table is designed to be placed centrally in the room, it is possible to connect it to the power source (taking into account the obvious functions), thus causing the wire to work from the electricity. Table to nearest switchboard.

Personally, the Aero isn’t a piece of furniture I’d live in my own home, despite my desire to retreat from the boring, ugly, air-cleaning template. Earlier last year, IKEA launched the STAKRVIND air purifier side table in the country with a more elegant aesthetic, and in 2020, Sauberer presented itself as a wall-mounted art with a 3.5 inch thick air purifier!