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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @01:23PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @01:23PM (#1043273)

    When will people realize that the drive to make everything "effortless" has been the cause of almost all of the first world's health problems ?

    We got rid of almost all of the major killers of humanity: Polio, smallpox, cholera, malaria, infant mortality, famine, and yes, most bloody wars. And now the number one and number two killers of the first world are heart-disease and suicide.

    We are fat and ugly. We live to be 90, but spend the last 30 years of our lives riddled with health problems, full of medication, with a miserable quality of life.

    Maybe our ancesters lived only to be 60, but they did so while being able to axe-split their ten cords of wood until the day they died.

    Stop eating shit, get off your lazy sorry asses and do something. Fucking "smart" lightbulbs. How hard is it to get off you couch twice a day and flip a fucking switch ? For fuck's sake.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @01:38PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @01:38PM (#1043284)

    But wouldn't you rather stay inside and watch Netflix instead? You can order McDonald's from Uber Eats, or maybe get an InstaCart delivery from Kroger with some frozen pizzas, and chill on the couch with some friends in a Google Meet. The important thing is you're saving lives, so that someday your grandparents can live to watch your children grow up to live a life even more empty and controlled by technocrats than yours.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @02:43PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @02:43PM (#1043327)

      When I was a kid growing up we played on the street. Now there are cars parked both sides.

      We rode bikes and disappeared all day getting up to no good. Now kids have to be monitored by adults and entertained 24/7.

      We smoked our first cigarettes and 13 and drank our first beer at 15, and pretended to like it. Now? The kids give blowjobs on the first date.

      What's the world coming to?

      • (Score: 2) by KilroySmith on Friday August 28 2020, @05:17PM (2 children)

        by KilroySmith (2113) on Friday August 28 2020, @05:17PM (#1043407)

        >>> Now? The kids give blowjobs on the first date.
        Now you're making me wish I was young...

        • (Score: 2) by Unixnut on Friday August 28 2020, @10:10PM (1 child)

          by Unixnut (5779) on Friday August 28 2020, @10:10PM (#1043529)

          > Now you're making me wish I was young...
          And making me wonder where I am going wrong...

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @12:50AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @12:50AM (#1043570)

            Here's an idea: 50 First Dates [imdb.com]