Share The Best Healthy Home Products of 2021 Even if you don’t consider yourself a homebody (the past year excluded), according to the EPA, we’re indoors about 90 percent of the time. This means that what we’re using, touching, and doing at home matters. And there are many steps we can take to boost our well-being inside. “You can start small, and every little swap you make can make a big difference,” says Heather Patisaul, PhD, an associate professor of biological sciences at North Carolina State University. To help point you in the right direction, we’ve highlighted five areas of the home to be mindful of, along with suggestions for how to make these spaces as healthy as possible.
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The first mobile phones to be put on sale in the 1980s were the size and weight of a house brick. They were comically huge, verging on unusable. But if technology is about anything, it’s about miniaturisation.
Over the next 15 years they started to shrink, and by the turn of the century you could buy a clamshell phone smaller than the palm of your hand. Then, despite our hands remaining very much the same size, phones began to grow again.
Today, the largest on the market – the Samsung Galaxy S20+ with its 6.7-inch screen, or the similarly sized iPhone 12 Pro Max – are hits, but smaller phones have become passe.
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Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT), and View, the market leader in smart glass, today announced the results of a study on the impact of natural light and the airport passenger experience. The study, conducted at CLT, found that natural light enhances passenger comfort, which in turn increases passenger satisfaction with gate experience.
Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) (Photo: Business Wire)
View Smart Windows use artificial intelligence and machine learning to optimize the amount of natural light in the terminal while minimizing heat and glare, to provide a more comfortable environment for passengers. In addition, smart windows reduce energy consumption by reducing cooling requirements.