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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @01:30PM (2 children)
Belgium has the highest per capita death rate globally. They've been on lockdown since March and are allowed to exercise for one hour a day. One person per family is allowed to go to the grocery store. The police are using drones to enforce social distancing. And they have the highest per capita deaths in the world.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @02:34PM
Nice try douchetard. Belgium is a made-up place [landoverbaptist.net], probably liberals who need somewhere to point to when saying somewhere is better than America.
(Score: 1) by fakefuck39 on Friday August 28 2020, @07:31PM
that's because you're comparing apples and oranges. by your method, china has zero deaths. belgium counts covid deaths differently - that's why you can't just throw their number on the same chart as the most of the eu.
they count cases where the death could be covid-related, even if no covid test was done. they also count every death - a lot of countries only count deaths in a hospital.
while still not completely accurate, a more appropriate way for comparing different measuring methods between countries is to look at deaths per capita - for any cause. and guess what - belgium is the same as the rest of the EU.