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Air Wick's New Scented Oil Diffuser Can Be Controlled With Your iPhone

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Air Wick recently introduced a new Bluetooth-enabled scented oil diffuser that can be controlled with your iPhone.

A diffuser transforms essential oils into a light, fragrant mist to give your home a nice scent. Air Wick's cordless, battery-powered device uses pre-mixed oil refills, eliminating the need to add water separately.

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The free Air Wick app for iOS and Android can be used to create scent schedules, adjust scent intensity, set refill reminders, purchase refills, and more. Apple's smart home platform HomeKit is not currently supported.

A starter pack with the diffuser, batteries, and one refill is available for $20 at Walmart, Target, and select other U.S. retailers.

App-enabled diffusers are nothing new, with many options available on Amazon, but Air Wick is a well-known brand and $20 is a decent price. For those who prefer HomeKit, read our review of the VOCOlinc FlowerBud.

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Wow. My mom literally gifted me refills for this yesterday, thinking they were standalone air fresheners. I almost bought two base units last night. Glad I didn’t!
 
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hold out for a built in local air quality / odor sensor
go figure; homeDepot has huge cans of Zep brand de-odorizer, last a year+
 
Two negatives: looks like you're locked into buying their refills (or at least they don't make it easy not to), so you can't use your own oils if you either want to customize the scent or trust the source of them more than whatever their available blends are. Second, as mentioned, there is no HomeKit support, so you can't really automate this device via that or integration into any real automation system (e.g., turn off when leave home or coordinate with other devices).

That being said, for the price, it doesn't look that bad. I'll still stick to the one I have to fill up on my own with my own EOs and (shock! horror!) water--but I do wish there was one with a "dumb" power switch so I could at least automate it with a smart outlet or something. Oh, well...

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That's a very good product, thanks for the info. But like many other things someone can hack into the app and use the diffuser to give maximum scent which will make refill to finish fast. And also because of this intense scent your burger or food tastes like pineapple, peach and wild mint.
 
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I already feel guilty about having to recharge my Apple Watch each day. I really miss the early and mid 90's... enough technology to make life easy, but not enough to overwhelm you.
 
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Kind of an interesting product. However, My caveat with this, it has a ‘30 foot’ BT radius only? Honestly, for my house I would prefer this to have a longer range for different rooms if I wanted to use something like this, and 30 feet isn’t going to cut it. Truthfully, I would have to test this out, perhaps it extends past 30 feet, but probably would depend on the strength of the Bluetooth signal through your house paired with the unit.
 
I've been waiting for this technology to finally be available, I thought it was only Science Fiction but now it's reality. What a time to be alive.
 
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Friendly reminder that humans and dogs and cats did not evolve under conditions of high concentrations of directly vaporized essential oils (which are otherwise largely safe to ingest and or encounter topically, as we have evolved encountering for eons).

Also that there are many epidemiological cases showing that these highly concentrated vaporized oils are deadly toxic to household pets.

Not to mention several studies and Material Safety Data Sheets showing certain compounds (like vitamin E oil) to be incredibly beneficial when ingested or applied topically, but cause severe respiratory collapse if inhaled in relatively small quantities.

TL;DR: Vaporizing oils in our homes is a brand new frontier of human/animal medical experimentation for which there is practically no precedent scientifically or evolutionarily. I choose not to be a subject of this experiment.
 
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Cool, you can adjust the rate you poison yourself with your phone!
And, you can plug it in beside your homekit enabled voc air quality monitor to watch the air quality go down as your use of the thing goes up. Exciting!
 
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OMG .... who the heck needs this garbage!?!?!?
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Obviously you’re not the target demographic for this product, but Airwick obviously realizes that there are some who will take advantage of this. But back to your question, nobody ’needs’ this product, it’s a matter of convenience controlled by your smart phone. Just like nobody ’needs’ other Bluetooth enabled devices just for the sake of being lazy from enabling say your Fossett, your showerhead, your toothbrush, can all be controlled by Bluetooth. Nobody needs any of those things, but you pay for the convenience. Perhaps that’s what you’re missing from the context of this product.
 
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robertcoogan said:
I'll go ahead and rank this one down there with the shower you can control from your iPhone. Humanity has (again) reached a new low. So useless.
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hey Siri “shower”.Heats the floors, turns the shower on to a certain temp, changes the lights brightness and color, plays certain music. First world? Yeah but it’s amazing
 
Ok.. to be fair, I was thinking this might be useful in my wife's dental office bathroom if you can program it just to turn on during business hours. End up not using as much cartridge since it wouldn't accidentally be left on overnight or on days when her office is closed. So while generally this might seem dumb.. i think there are some uses for it that might not be completely inane.
 
Been using a diffuser with a remote last few years. Programmed it into my harmony remote. A HomeKit one would be cool but that thing is hideous.
 
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Obviously you’re not the target demographic for this product, but Airwick obviously realizes that there are some who will take advantage of this. But back to your question, nobody ’needs’ this product, it’s a matter of convenience controlled by your smart phone. Just like nobody ’needs’ other Bluetooth enabled devices just for the sake of being lazy from enabling say your Fossett, your showerhead, your toothbrush, can all be controlled by Bluetooth. Nobody needs any of those things, but you pay for the convenience. Perhaps that’s what you’re missing from the context of this product.
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Thanks for your concern, but let me assure I’m not missing anything here!

But these products from AirWick don’t do anything good (with or without Bluetooth) ...i.e. simply not healthy for anyone breathing that kinda “fresh” air in the long(er) term!
 
The year is 2045. A father and son are rummaging through a mall flooded by sea level rise.

SON: Dad! Look at this thing. It says it’s some kind of... scent diffuser?

FATHER: Yeah. People used to buy stuff like this. You could make a smell come out of a little electrical device, over the Internet. So you could do it from anywhere in the world.

SON: Even while the ecosystems were collapsing? Wasn’t that considered a waste of resources? I mean, to think of the carbon emissions involved in designing, manufacturing, and transporting millions of those things. Seems like—

FATHER: Son? That’s enough. Just keep looking for cans. There might be soup here somewhere.
 
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