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January 2, 2011
Carbon Dioxide Monitor
Why?
I thought on first glance it was a super-expensive carbon monoxide monitor (an inexpensive version of which should be in your bedroom) but no, it's a carbon dioxide analyzer.
Carbon dioxide is what's in your exhaled breath, but it's hard to see how knowing how much is in the ambient air around you will improve the quality of your life to the tune of $462.
But maybe I'm missing something.
From the website: "To maintain that healthy living, studying or working environment, we should all keep checking the amount of carbon [sic] in the air. When this monitor tells you the CO2 levels are over 1000ppm then it is time to switch on the ventilation and circuit some oxygen into the room."
$462.
January 2, 2011 at 01:01 PM | Permalink
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Dope grow rooms. Need I say more?
Posted by: Lawlibrarian | Jan 3, 2011 12:41:32 AM
Inexpensive CO2 monitors www.co2meter.com special $169
Posted by: Ray | Jan 2, 2011 11:43:13 PM
Circulate, circuit!
I have always found it fascinating that some companies in Japan (and elsewhere) refuse to have English ads or instructions converted to proper English.
I can't tell you how many times the word "impossible" is used in place of "do not", "not suggested",
"not this way", won't happen ;-)" etc.
As I stated before my grammar is substandard, but if I produced products for sale
I would hire a proofreader.
Posted by: Joe Peach | Jan 2, 2011 7:48:47 PM
http://www.labsafety.com/Extech-Digital-Carbon-Dioxide-Monitor_s_167054/Portable-Monitors_28294543/?ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=167054&CID=9PP001 - cheaper item. Only $235. Still high :-(.
Posted by: Paul Pruitt | Jan 2, 2011 6:29:25 PM
Well, yes, true enough — but do consider that the authors likely speak Japanese as their first language and so "circuit" is perhaps close enough to get the idea across. After all, we're paying for their engineering, not their linguistic ability.
Posted by: bookofjoe | Jan 2, 2011 4:32:10 PM
"When this monitor tells you the CO2 levels are over 1000ppm then it is time to switch on the ventilation and circuit (sic) some oxygen into the room."
When you spend $462 on some product marketed by people who use the word 'circuit' where they should have used the word 'circulate', you deserve what you get.
Posted by: antares | Jan 2, 2011 3:12:30 PM
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