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Year in Review 2025 🔁 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣

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As 2025 draws to a close, it’s a moment for reflection and gratitude here at www.seetheair.org. This year, our journey to champion better air quality, both indoors and outdoors, has reached new and exciting heights.

While I published slightly fewer articles than in the previous year, the commitment of our readership remained incredibly strong. I’m thrilled to report that our total visits for the year held nearly steady, hitting an impressive 209,000 visits! It’s a powerful testament to the value of dedicated content and your unwavering interest in the air we breathe.

A Historic Shift in Global Reach

The most striking development of 2025 was a monumental shift in our global audience. For the first time ever, in the last three months of the year, visits from China have absolutely skyrocketed, replacing the USA as the number one country to visit the blog.

This surge appears to be a very organic and powerful movement. We see constant, daily visits, but no specific referring site to credit. A huge welcome to all our new readers in China—your engagement is truly inspiring!

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AirDummies: A Breath of Fresh Air for Indoor Environment Simulation

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AirDummies emerges as a highly intuitive and powerful Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software, purpose-built to demystify the complex world of indoor air dynamics. Designed with a clear focus on accessibility, it caters to a broad spectrum of users, offering invaluable insights into air patterns within diverse indoor environments, including school classrooms, offices, and domestic settings. Its ability to simulate everything from CO2 concentrations, particle contaminants, and temperature gradients to air velocity makes it an indispensable tool for optimizing comfort, health, and energy efficiency.

AirDummies is built upon the OpenFOAM open-source library. This foundational relationship means AirDummies leverages OpenFOAM’s extensive capabilities for simulating fluid flow, heat transfer, and related phenomena. By utilizing OpenFOAM, AirDummies benefits from a robust, well-validated, and continuously developed CFD engine, providing users with a powerful and flexible platform for their simulation needs.

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Review: Xiaomi Mijia AirPOP Airwear

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I was looking forward to review this mask as it has a unique design to adjust around the face. They call it 360º Facial fit with zero glue and zero Formaldehyde. It is supposed to protect you from the dead ends on both sides of the nose and chin, allows to better fit the facial contours as seen on the picture below.Read More »

Review: Awair 2nd Edition

Sotirios Papathanasiou7 Comments

I love when companies manage to release a second generation of their original product. In this case, Awair released the new Awair 2nd Edition a few months ago.

They clearly have learned a lot and the adjustments they have done and offer with the new version are notable at least hardware-wise. Software-wise the tweaks are small in comparison with the old version but welcome. This can be a good thing because old users can enjoy similar features like the new ones.

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