While scientists and ordinary people in China and abroad are trying to come up with technologies and tricks to shield their lungs from the effects of smog, one young inventor, surnamed Gong, from central China’s Hubei Province decided to go against the flow.

Gong came up with a “smog cannon” to make people experience the feeling of getting hit by haze, in a bid to help raise awareness about the dangers of air pollution.

He made his invention come to life by using an iron bucket.

Gong does not intend to create pollution – the smog that is launched from his “gun” is just a simulation of the formation of the toxic fog and is not harmful to humans or the environment.  (Photos: CFP)