Name: A personal air-quality tracker that lets you know what you're breathing
Uploaded: 2019-04-22T14:54:57Z
Duration: 5 min 25 s
Description: How often do you think about the air you're breathing? Probably not enough, says entrepreneur and TED Fellow Romain Lacombe. He introduces Flow: a personal air-quality tracker that fits in your hand and monitors pollution levels in real time. See how this device could help you track and understand pollution street by street, hour by hour -- and empower you to take action to improve your health.

How often do you think about the air you're breathing? Probably not enough, says entrepreneur and TED Fellow Romain Lacombe. He introduces Flow: a personal air-quality tracker that fits in your hand and monitors pollution levels in real time. See how this device could help you track and understand pollution street by street, hour by hour -- and empower you to take action to improve your health.

Romain Lacombe: A personal air-quality tracker that lets you know what you're breathing

A personal air-quality tracker that lets you know what you're breathing

Air pollution, a public health crisis, kills 7 million annually and costs $5 trillion globally, shortening lives worldwide.

Flow, a portable air-quality tracker, empowers individuals to understand and reduce their exposure to harmful pollutants.

Crowdsourced air-quality data from devices like Flow can support clean-air policies, mirroring the impact of smoking bans.