Razer Has Created a Concept N95 Mask With RGB and Voice Projection 43
Razer has created a concept reusable N95 respirator called Project Hazel, featuring Chroma RGB LEDs and microphones and amplifiers to project your voice. The Verge reports: It's a concept design with a glossy outside shell made of waterproof and scratch-resistant recycled plastic, which is transparent to allow for lip-reading and seeing facial cues when you chat with people. Currently, there isn't a price or release date attached. Razer refers to Project Hazel as a surgical N95, but it hasn't yet earned any of the necessary approvals and certifications from the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or Occupational Safety and Health Administration. In a statement to The Verge, Razer said it is working with a team of medical experts and scientists who are helping to develop the mask.
The main features of this mask lie within its two circular zones that flank your mouth. They're used for ventilation, giving the device an almost futuristic gas mask look. Razer claims Project Hazel will use active disc-type ventilators, filtering air that's breathed in, as well as the CO2 that's being exhaled. The company adds that it will be certified to filter 95 percent of airborne particles, including the COVID-19 virus and other common pathogens. [...] Microphones and amplifiers embedded in the ventilators will project your voice through the mask, so you won't have to worry about sounding muffled. Razer told us that it's working with THX sound engineers to find a balance in terms of how loud the speakers should be for accessibility purposes. [...] Each of the respirator-meets-amplifier rings can glow in the color of your choosing. And when it gets dark, a set of LEDs activate automatically to shine light on your mouth so others can still see you talk. The company also envisions that each mask will include a large charging case that sterilizes the mask with UV light when it's not in use.
The main features of this mask lie within its two circular zones that flank your mouth. They're used for ventilation, giving the device an almost futuristic gas mask look. Razer claims Project Hazel will use active disc-type ventilators, filtering air that's breathed in, as well as the CO2 that's being exhaled. The company adds that it will be certified to filter 95 percent of airborne particles, including the COVID-19 virus and other common pathogens. [...] Microphones and amplifiers embedded in the ventilators will project your voice through the mask, so you won't have to worry about sounding muffled. Razer told us that it's working with THX sound engineers to find a balance in terms of how loud the speakers should be for accessibility purposes. [...] Each of the respirator-meets-amplifier rings can glow in the color of your choosing. And when it gets dark, a set of LEDs activate automatically to shine light on your mouth so others can still see you talk. The company also envisions that each mask will include a large charging case that sterilizes the mask with UV light when it's not in use.
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Only way to get people to buy over-priced masks.
One way, but if Madison Avenue has taught is anything, certainly not the only way... there's Federer [hollywoodbranded.com] for instance.
Dude. (Score:1)
They don't wear masks, they have made that part of their 'brand'.
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That is why I said it. To get them to wear it.
The all-important question for this kind of gear (Score:2)
Can I change the color of the keyboard backlighting?
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Can I change the color of the keyboard backlighting?
I'm guessing you mean of the razor symbol which will need to be backlit so you can tell it's one of their products?
Of course you can, just download this multi-gigabyte exe and install it on your Windows only PC...
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Can I change the color of the keyboard backlighting?
I'm guessing you mean of the razor symbol which will need to be backlit so you can tell it's one of their products?
Of course you can, just download this multi-gigabyte exe and install it on your Windows only PC...
I should have read the article first, whoops - no lit up Razor symbol, just circles. Much nicer.
Now create a PC case for doing work. (Score:2)
Instead of for superficial flashy bling prostitutes.
Re: Now create a PC case for doing work. (Score:1)
Because gamers are known for their contribution to real world productivity.
Good .. but (Score:3)
OK, I like the design .. it's a big improvement in design versus other air purifier masks such as LG's. BUT .. it's not clear how well exhaled microbes are being filtered. That's my only hesitation on this thing. A mask should protect the wearer and the public.
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A mask should protect the wearer and the public.
...or you could not go outside sick - and the public wouldn't need to be "protected"
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How do you know you're sick without any symptoms?
One other little problem (Score:4, Insightful)
The summary say they are talking to doctors, talking to sound engineers. So in a few months the design will be finalized. A couple months after that their first shipment will arrive from the Chinese contract manufacturer.
Which should be right about the same time the last tranche of people get vaccinated.
Nah... All air purifier masks are bad. By design. (Score:2)
I bought one of the Chinese ones months before this whole thing started - because of smog.
Where I live most of the individual homes are heated by coal and cars are on average two decades old.
So I did some testing... and it's not the exhaled microbes you have to worry about.
Any of these babies, if worn outside, in cold weather... it's an inflammation of airwaves waiting to happen.
It's the nature of the beast.
Because fans.
Using a passive mask, one is breathing in air at temperatures probably a bit above the s
Not NIOSH N95 and not flightworthy (Score:5, Informative)
NIOSH N95 approved masks have headbands and not ear loops
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nppt... [cdc.gov]
Plus all US airlines have banned vented masks
https://loyaltylobby.com/2020/... [loyaltylobby.com]
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The banned masks have valves that release unfiltered air when you exhale.
In Razer's mask the circles are not valves, but filters.
Anyway, Razer is a company best avoided IMHO. If this product is anything like their other products, the LEDs would probably not work without the app and the app would probably require registration, call home every time you use the LEDs, and ask you to install a program "mines" cryptocurrency for insignificant store credit [vice.com].
Re:Not NIOSH N95 and not flightworthy (Score:5, Insightful)
In Razer's mask the circles are not valves, but filters.
While that may be the case, good luck arguing that detail with someone who has no clue other than the guidance to not let anyone in with masks that have circlish looking bits.
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The LG concept one looked better. No stupid RGB but some kind of pump that helps you breath.
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Darth Corona (Score:3, Funny)
"Luke, I am your doctor, you have Covid"
Re: Darth Corona (Score:2)
N0000! IT'S N0T TR00000!
- Donald Trump
some lowercase letters haha why do I have to do this when swastika guy can post that crap in every thread.
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"That's impoththsssible!"
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if they can make the voice projection sound like a storm trooper i'll buy a case.
So, everything you say turns into the Wilhelm Scream?
Mask is cool, but (Score:4, Insightful)
Look at the chair in the same article, I wouldn't mind having that.
What I really want is a Lay-z-boy with a nice desk so I can rock and work.
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What I really want is a Lay-z-boy with a nice desk so I can rock and work.
The Lay-z-boy brand is as infamous as Kleenex. Why in the HELL they didn't get into the business of making office chairs, is beyond me. A national naptime for professionals would be eschewed in faster than the concept of tea time with the Queen.
Damn gold mine they're ignoring, especially during a pandemic.
As if RGB leds (Score:2)
will save you Bay Valley Democrats from the horrors of the Chahaina-virus.
RGB LEDs? (Score:2)
How does it sound when you say? (Score:2)
"I find your lack of faith disturbing"?
driver (Score:3)
So since it is razer, will it also need their annoying driver that insists that you login to their cloud service just so you can configure the buttons on their mouse? Bought bought their left hand mouse, liked it but are not going to buy another because of their software grrr. :)
(had to remap the keys in their software and not in windows because laptop with touchpad, long story)
Killer features, but... (Score:3)
An active mask with LEDs, microphones, amplifiers, and a THX-certified sound experience.
I'm guessing what, seven...maybe eight minutes of battery life?
Hope these things still work in analog mode, in case we already forgot what they're for.
Needs night vision (Score:2)
Recycled plastic is also transparent?
Filters will be biohazard garbage. Okay to incinerate I suppose but wouldn't want to see a box full of used ones in the kitchen.
If they add high energy LEDs aiming outwards it might help see the other person's face.. or just add night vision wtf
Hard masks are stupid. (Score:3)
There are a whole bunch of different shapes and sizes of face. A hard mask will only fit one shape, and one size. A mask that doesn't fit your face is absolutely fucking worthless. It doesn't protect anyone from you, and it doesn't protect you from anyone.
This mask will be worthless for not just many or even most people, but almost all people.
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You can pretty clearly see the rubberized and flexible part of the mask inside the hardened outer part. That flexible part is what goes against your face. And by my guess, it'll probably have different available rubberized bits to fit different types of faces, like most products of this type.
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And you can clearly see the lights within getting through a huge gap between the seal and the face of the wearing model. So they have done something useful with the RGB LEDs - they've created a mask that shows it doesn't work.
"Hi. I'm Darth Vader and I have a mask for you" (Score:2)
Hermetically sealed, nano particle filters, integrated sunglasses all built in to a helmet that can deflect laser blasts, light saber strikes, and hockey pucks.
Awesome! (Score:2)