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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.

Original Submission

1. "Freeman" - https://soylentnews.org/~Freeman/
2. "LG's battery-powered face mask will "make breathing effortless"" - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/lgs-battery-powered-face-mask-will-make-breathing-effortless/
3. "mask" - https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/should-you-wear-a-face-mask-heres-all-the-data-we-have/
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