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/PRNewswire/ Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) President and CEO Joseph M. McGuire issued the following statement regarding the Biden.
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The COVID pandemic and in much of the country, smoke-filled air caused by rampant wildfires has renewed interest in a formerly sleepy sector of the gadget universe: the air purifier. For those of us in California, air purifiers have been essential companions in the fall months, helping to rid the unyielding stench of wood smoke from the air while (we hope) protecting our health from the potential damages of inhaling toxic gasses and particles.
But do air purifiers do any good? A well-publicized
Consumer Reports story from 2003 found that they were not only basically useless, but that many models produced unhealthy levels of ozone instead of removing it. The upshot was that some purifiers could make health conditions like asthma worse, not better. The Sharper Image, whose Ionic Breeze product was the poster child for air purifiers at the time, sued the magazine for libel and lost going out of business soon after. The air purifier had suddenly become a pariah.
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Removing the screen on an iPhone 8 (Photo: iFixit/CC)
The right to repair movement is gaining momentum. This movement seeks to require manufacturers to offer diagnostic tools, manuals and other resources to allow for third-party or consumer-initiated repairs.
The fact that software is wrapped into everything has made it easier for manufacturers to only allow authorized service providers to access trouble codes and reset systems. Proponents of the movement say manufacturers have made repairs difficult by only offering proprietary diagnostic software to authorized service centers.
There s much at stake in the right to repair battle - whether we can control our devices or our device manufacturers can control us.