28 million people are breathing air that is shortening their lives. Every day. Quietly. Cumulatively.
Masks seal the face. Room purifiers stay in one room. Nothing is designed for the hours between — the commute, the run, the office, the dinner. That gap is the whole day.
“I don't believe the answer is fear, alarms, or medical framing. I believe the answer is quiet, well‑designed tools that fit into real life. This is the beginning.”
A modular system, designed so each piece can improve without disturbing the others. What you wear has stayed the simplest part on purpose.
HEPA cartridge, centrifugal fan, breath sensor. Ambient air in, clean air out — only on demand.
A slim silicone line follows the body's own contours — behind the ear, along the jaw — fully concealed.
A soft, open‑nostril interface rests along the cheek. Two prongs, never sealed. You breathe as you always have.
A differential pressure sensor watches for the first draw of an inhale. The fan lifts, delivers, stops. No ambient whir. No standby hum. Nothing running against the quiet of a normal day.
The nasal interface enters your nostrils without sealing them. You can talk, eat, laugh, kiss. Exhale exits freely — a one‑way prong architecture keeps it from cycling back into the system.
A medical‑grade HEPA element captures particulates ≥ 0.3µm at 99.97%. Replaceable. Unrushed. The thing you'll replace is intentionally the smallest, cheapest part.
Four options for living in polluted air. Three of them end when the day begins.
The first goal is to build something people are willing to live with.
Vayu is being developed from scratch at the Masters' Union Makers Lab, in Delhi NCR. Four prototypes deep. Each version tests a specific hypothesis — airflow, breath detection, comfort, one‑way architecture. No outsourced engineering, no shortcuts on the parts that touch skin.
If a wearable is worn consistently, it becomes a platform. That's a conversation for later. This year, we're focused on the first hundred people who won't take it off.
Everything we have an answer for, we've answered. Everything we don't, we haven't pretended to.
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