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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: 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]