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LG's Battery-Powered Face Mask Will "Make Breathing Effortless"

posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 28 2020, @08:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the solution-looking-for-a-problem dept.

Freeman writes:

LG's battery-powered face mask will "make breathing effortless":

Big Tech is here to save us from COVID-19! With every responsible, compassionate person running around with a mask on nowadays, it seems inevitable that the phrase "wearable technology" will soon regularly include overly complicated high-tech face masks. One of the first major tech companies out of the gate with a questionably useful product is LG. The "LG PuriCare Wearable Air Purifier" is a battery-powered face mask that the company says will "supply fresh, clean air indoors and out."

[...] A HEPA filter can stop respiratory particles (so does a normal N95 mask), but LG's press release only says the mask will "take in clean, filtered air"—it doesn't say anything about filtering exhalations.

The mask is out it[sic] the fourth quarter in "select markets," but you should probably just wear a normal, lighter, cheaper, more comfortable mask. Please wear a mask.

Call me crazy, but I don't want lithium batteries that close to my face.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Opportunist on Friday August 28 2020, @11:55AM (8 children)

    by Opportunist (5545) on Friday August 28 2020, @11:55AM (#1043240)

    Brazil or US? Where are you?

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  • (Score: 2) by leon_the_cat on Friday August 28 2020, @11:59AM (6 children)

    by leon_the_cat (10052) on Friday August 28 2020, @11:59AM (#1043241) Journal

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/swedens-top-epidemiologist-says-we-see-no-point-in-wearing-masks-as-covid-19-cases-drop [dailywire.com]

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @01:19PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @01:19PM (#1043266)

      And with a trusted government response like they had, you know you can trust him!

      Just 45% of Swedes now have confidence in the government's ability to handle the pandemic, according to a Novus survey last month, down from 63% in April.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53498133#:~:text=Just%2045%25%20of%20Swedes%20now,the%20peak%20of%20the%20pandemic.

      • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday August 30 2020, @11:26AM

        by Bot (3902) on Sunday August 30 2020, @11:26AM (#1044148) Journal

        I'd wait to see what happens in the rest of europe this autumn before bashing sweden's response.

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Freeman on Friday August 28 2020, @03:38PM (3 children)

      by Freeman (732) on Friday August 28 2020, @03:38PM (#1043362) Journal

      I was going to call them whiners, but they have 17 more deaths per million population than the USA.

      https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ [worldometers.info]
      Deaths per million:
      #1 San Marino (By a large margin, but they only have 32k citizens. Even worse, their Deaths per million population 1,237, is a crazy statistic. Actual deaths: 42.)
      #2 Peru
      #3 Belgium
      #4 Andorra (Another very small nation, 77k citizens. Deaths per million population 686. Actual deaths: 53)
      #5 Spain
      #6 UK
      #7 Italy
      #8 Chile
      #9 Sweden
      #10 USA
      Hey look, we made it to the top 10! Oh wait, we don't want to be high on this list . . .

      World Average is 107.4 deaths per million. USA is at 559 deaths per million. The world average would be #56 on the list, if they counted it.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @08:06PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @08:06PM (#1043498)

        A whopping 17 more deaths per million?

        So you're saying it's less than a statistical rounding error?

        • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday August 29 2020, @04:37AM

          by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 29 2020, @04:37AM (#1043650) Journal

          A whopping 17 more deaths per million?

          More than the US.

        • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday August 31 2020, @03:13PM

          by Freeman (732) on Monday August 31 2020, @03:13PM (#1044604) Journal

          So, are you saying, there can be no confidence in the numbers? In that event, you may as well jump on whatever political bandwagon you feel like. Either people are being careful about recording the numbers or they aren't. I would guess a place like Sweden would have a lot more accurate numbers than a place like China.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @12:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @12:41AM (#1043567)

    Is this retardation still going on?

    The US presidential campaigns and election? Yes. It's more obnoxious than hearing christmas music from October thru January.