I’m the type of person who prefers having my room windows wide open to enjoy the fresh air which I’m lucky enough to have in my area. Unfortunately for me, this paved the way for mosquitoes to party in my room as well and feast on me – literally.

Back then, I used a mosquito net to keep those blood-thirsty, miniature, female vampires from biting me (Yep, it’s the female mosquitoes that feeds off human blood). Mosquito bite-marks are not only annoying and itchy, the red marks they leave are very obvious to the point of embarrassing if you have one too many (which I used to have). Not to mention the fact that mosquito bites can be very deadly (read dengue and malaria).

Then again, being a huge fan of fascinating simple innovations (e.g. a two-in-one flash disk “slash” pen, and even a concealer “slash” pimple treatment) I discovered an electric mosquito killer to replace my mosquito net. Using only 5 watts of electricity for a 20 square-meter room (just like charging a cellular phone), this product provides up to eight hours of smoke-free protection against mosquitoes. How convenient and economical can you get?

Unfortunately for me again, the odor it emits caused an allergic reaction to me. The “economical” part from that electric mosquito killer went down the drain because I had to pull out a huge chunk off my cash drawer just to cure my allergy. Oh well, back to mosquito nets.