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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: 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.