Auli 2.0 review: the air purifier you wont hide away in a corner
Most air purifiers end up in the corner, tucked away because they just look like another piece of tech where design was an afterthought.Not the Auli 2.0.It’s a 52-inch floor lamp with a triple-stage HEPA filter hidden in the base, and it took me less than 30 minutes to build.Here’s the gist: This is an actually stylish piece of furniture that has two shade options, warm linen and soft ivory, both on the same pine-finish base.
Auli offers free shipping, 30-day returns and a one-year warranty.The Auli 2.0 floor lamp and air purifier is a 52.4-inch dimmable LED lamp with a three-stage H13 HEPA filter in the base.It features five fan speeds, three light modes and two color choices for your shade.
Filters cost $69 or $62 with the 90-day subscription and are rated for 2,200 hours.Yes.It’s a cylinder weighing about 14 pounds, 11 inches in diameter, with a sophisticated slatted base that houses the purifier and a tall fabric shade that houses two bulbs. At three stages, the filter design is the real deal: a pre-filter for hair and dust, activated carbon for odors and smoke and an H13 HEPA layer that Auli says captures 99.97% of particles down to 0.3 microns. The brand rates it at 1,836 square feet of coverage per hour (which far surpasses the city square footage in which I reside).One thing the product page tells you that the photos don’t: the base is made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), a type of plastic used in everything from Lego bricks to dashboards and often a pick for 3D printing filament. That durable ABS base features a nice pine wood-grain finish that I didn’t realize wasn’t wood at first glance.
From six feet away, it reads as wood, but up close it’s plastic.I don’t mind, but worth knowing ahead of time.A few illustrated steps and it’s genuinely easy, with two spots that may slow you down.The packing was pristine (I’m a big fan of spatial intelligence), and the power adapter ships tucked inside the filter in a bubble-wrapped...