It’s a strange new world we live in. Fearing for one’s own personal safety (as well as the safety of others) it has now become normal to wear a mask in public with some states even requiring them.
Ironically, masks are even now required TO ENTER A BANK!!!
Personally, I still find it very strange to have to wear a mask in public and have been reluctant to do so. Doing so just seems like such a finite act, one that make our current situation feel all too real. But as my friend recently pointed out to me, if everyone else is wearing a mask then it may be weirder for you NOT to wear one.
There is, however, one mask on the market that I wouldn’t mind wearing: The ATMOBLUE. For this state of the art mask purifies 99.9% of air particles and does so while looking like the “Tesla of face masks”.
As Yanko Design puts it:
“There’s an inherent set of problems with the common N95 [mask]. A, it’s a struggle to breathe through, especially for long intervals, B. it’s uncomfortable having that humid air circulating around your mouth, C. for 2/3rd of the world’s population, it fogs up glasses, and D. it needs to be disposed of after a certain point of time. The N95 mask isn’t great, and Leandro Rolon and his team set out on a mission to make it better.
Rolon, an architect, designer, and CEO of his own 3D printing company, realized what a big problem it was breathing polluted air in China, where he had set up his studio. Air quality isn’t a problem you can fix short-term, and while governments still fumble with this widespread problem, the only quick solution to breathing in bad air is to wear a mask… except these masks weren’t designed to be worn all the time.
Leandro soon realized that the best mask was the one that solved the four aforementioned problems. It needed to be comfortable, and effectively circulate purified air so that you could breathe with ease, and your glasses wouldn’t get fogged up. The solution required scaling down an air purifier to something that was small enough to fit on your face.
Calling it the ATMOBLUE, Leandro and his team developed an entirely new category of wearables that could actively purify the air of 99.9% of particles, pioneering a technology that made them sort of the Tesla of face-masks, as opposed to the N95 which only filtered 95% of the air. The mask featured ‘positive air pressure’ which helped keep out germs and contaminants by making the air pressure inside the mask greater than the air pressure outside. Built-in fans pushed purified air right into the insides of the mask, allowing you to breathe normally, and one-way outlets got rid of the humid air, so your mouth never felt wet and sweaty.”
The masks work so well in fact that they can used while exercising and don’t have to be removed to have conversations. Considering the propensity for Climate Change driven global air pollution issues in the near future we may get to the point where we continue to use these masks, even long after COVID-19 has passed, to ensure that we always have access to clean air. Regardless of where we are or what we’re doing. A weird but necessary part of the new normal that we find ourselves in.
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