Unable To See Asthamatic Son In Pain, Father Invents Air Purifier To Help Him Breathe Easy

It was the mid-1990s. Months after Yogi Goswami migrated from his hometown Delhi to the US for a career in solar energy, he found his baby son Dilip struggling with asthma.

Yogi, now a professor at the University of South Florida, began research for a new technology as no existing air purifier offered relief from poor indoor air quality.

Twenty years later, when pollution has become a problem in most parts of the world, his family has found a probable solution: Molekule. Pegged as the world’s first air purifier that completely destroys harmful pollutants – existing technology only traps such particles – the device has made to the 2017 list of Time’s top 25 inventions.