As the world gears up for Global Warming and its effects, so do companies come out with new ways to handle the situation. One such example is W/Air created by Brazilian designers Martina Pagura and Pedro Nakazato Andrade. Also known as the ‘breathing necklace’, it is an incredible device that filters CO2 and stores energy.

The Brazilian designers came up with this new gadget as part of the two week workshop on wearable, interactive responses to environmental change with David Gauthier, Di Mainstone and Priya Mani. The creative workshop focused on the body within projected and far-flung future scenarios. The students also focused on body-centric wearable design in the context of climate, environment and sustainability.

This device senses air pollution and reproduces a sound to warn the user to close the front of the necklace. It also provides O2 for the user and stores CO2 as a high font of energy to be reused in everyday life by converting the Co2 into electricity for later use.

This does sound like a good idea specially seeing the effects of global warning. Each attempt brings our world into a more sustainable state of being. Numerous endeavors have been undertaken by individuals, organizations and government bodies alike and we just hope that this device can be seen soon.

via inhabit/pedroandrade