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

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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @01:23PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @01:23PM (#1043272)

    Isn't it weird how the places in the US with the worst lockdowns and high rates of mask compliance are also where all the deaths happened?

    When is that wave of death supposed to arrive in Georgia anyway? Must have gotten stuck somewhere between there and New York.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @02:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @02:56PM (#1043338)

    Here in Washington State, we've still got low rates, even though we had extreme lockdown by American standards. I don't know where you idiots get you're facts from, but it's a failure to lock down early enough and trying to reopen too quickly that are the real problems. Screw that up and you have to go extreme to try and undo the damage leading to they perception.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by fakefuck39 on Friday August 28 2020, @07:24PM (2 children)

    by fakefuck39 (6620) on Friday August 28 2020, @07:24PM (#1043483)

    it's not weird in any way if you passed 5th grade math. Those places have more sun and much, much less population density, so they have lower rates. the worst places have a lot of people packed in a little space, so they have higher deaths. is that too complex for you?

    Georgia you say? Ok, let's look at georgia. Let's look at Atlanta. Population 500k, density 3k/mi, 5000 deaths. Chicago - population 3mil, density 11k/mi, 8000 deaths. The example you just gave shows you're doing like10x worse than everyone else. Good job proving masks work.

    More importantly, how dense do you have to be to pretend a piece of cloth that filters shit doesn't block a lot of the virus? You don't need observations for that. All you need is a saw and a piece of drywall, and a mask.

    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday August 30 2020, @11:31AM (1 child)

      by Bot (3902) on Sunday August 30 2020, @11:31AM (#1044150) Journal

      "Yeah too many people are packed in a little space, let's enforce a lockdown, but not a total one where the army gives you food in sanitized packages which actually might stop the virus from being trasmitted among households"

      hmmmmm

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      • (Score: 1) by fakefuck39 on Sunday August 30 2020, @10:46PM

        by fakefuck39 (6620) on Sunday August 30 2020, @10:46PM (#1044375)

        I have a serious question for you. Do you have some kind of a mental illness where you can't comprehend basic English? Do people talk to you, it flies in one ear and out the other, then you hear voices in your head and argue with those voices? Have you even been in a situation where a guy goes "you parked in my reserved spot idiot" and you reply with "no, the reason fungus is not due to car exhaust - it grows because a vast network of underground spores surfaces after the rain" Has that happened?