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No, this isn’t Daft Punk cosplay, it’s a privacy-protecting N99 mask and face-shield!

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I love the Blanc Mask for a lot of reasons. Not only is it a functional piece of equipment that gives you 99.97% clean air to breathe while guarding your face, it also serves as a privacy protector, a fashion statement, and the pandemic equivalent of a Guy Fawkes mask – to show that you’re a part of a collective that believes in the protection of one’s health AND one’s anonymity.

It’s no accident that the Blanc Mask looks like a cosplay helmet from some anime series. The mask makes a conscious effort to look nothing like traditional PPE, but at the same time it’s every bit as protective as they are. I’ll dive further into the fashion element after getting the mask’s filter-specifications and overall performance out of the way. The Blanc provides a protective, full-face cover, giving you a tinted visor to look through, and specifically designed air-channels to breathe through. Two high-efficiency SGS-tested HEPA filters make sure the air you breathe is 99.97% pure, trapping any microparticles, microorganisms, and VOCs in the process. The mask itself offers an air-tight seal, while carefully calibrated pathways ensure the air you breathe always passes through a filter, giving you pure air with each breath. Air that you exhale passes out through outlets located at the base of the mask, ensuring your visor never gets fogged up. Should you choose, the Blanc even comes with a unique corrective visor system that gives you prescription visors, so you can effectively wear the mask without spectacles… although the mask’s inner padding offers enough space for you to wear your own glasses.

The Blanc’s highlight however is its form, which is an absolute deviation from anything we’ve ever seen before. Designed to be part fashion statement, part identity-concealer, the mask comes with a relatively opaque design that covers your entire face, barring the eyes, which have a tinted visor in front of them. The full-face design not only works as a traditional face-shield, but it’s quite literally visually a class apart, allowing you to be seen, but unseen. In fact, it’s designed to be modular too, with options to plug in add-ons like Bluetooth earpieces and voice-modulation devices. Pretty cool, eh?!

The mask’s designed to split vertically into two halves, allowing you to snap it on or off in mere seconds; and a wide headband goes around the back of your head, making sure you can wear the mask for hours without feeling any fatigue (especially around the ears, as is the case with most face-masks). Each box-unit of the Blanc Mask comes with 2 sets of replaceable HEPA filters, as well as removable front panels. In fact, you can pick from a variety of Blanc’s own front panels, choosing between color as well as pattern options… although I recommend pairing it with a same-color onesie and cosplaying as an Among Us character!

Designer: Alexey Dolgushin

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Blanc – Full-face Modular Mask

The Blanc is a HEPA-enabled full-face modular face mask that protects your eyes, nose and mouth from the outside world.

Keep your identity secure behind its opaque changeable front panels. Adjust the mask to your outfit or any occasion in 2 quick movements. Unclip the existing front panel, and effortlessly snap the new one in place.

Next-Generation Protection

The comfortable air-tight fit allows all air you breathe is sent through 2 SGS-tested replaceable HEPA filters. These high-efficiency filters purify the air you breathe in real-time, ensuring continuous protection wherever you go.

Each mask comes with a pack of 2x HEPA filters that deliver you clean and purified air for up to 14 days (on average). We all understand the benefits of wearing face masks, but not all masks are created equal. Regular masks offer a less-than-adequate fit, allowing air to spill through the gaps.

HEPA filters, or high-efficiency particulate air filters, are a special form of mechanical air filters that force air through a multi-layered fine mesh of angled micro-fibers. This traps harmful particles such as pollen, pet dander, tobacco smoke, pollution and dust mites.

The Mask That Suits Your Style

With its interchangeable magnetic panels, you can easily customize your Blanc’s front panel with different materials, textures, and colors to express yourself.

Protect Your Privacy

Away from face-recognition cameras and nosy onlookers, with Blanc’s full-facial opaque protection, you decide when, where, and with whom you share your personal facial information.

Use Cases

Full-Facial Protection 24/7

Blanc is the full-facial protection you can wear and forget about. There’s no danger of touching your face, or of the mask’s HEPA filters wearing out over the course of the day.

180-Degree Airtight Seal

Blanc mask is designed to ergonomically fit against your face, creating an airtight enclosure, and only feeding you air filtered through its high-efficiency HEPA filters.

All-Day Comfort

With Blanc, there’s no need for readjustments throughout the day. The interior chamber of Blanc is crafted to ergonomically adjust to your face. And its super-comfortable wide headband perfectly locks the mask in place, without stretching your ears or squeezing your head.

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This face mask’s replaceable pleated N99 filter and modular face shield give you all-round protection

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Like all good products, the Respo mask isn’t about just highlighting a single good feature. It’s a culmination of multiple features and details that come together to form something greater than just the sum of its parts. The Respo is an aesthetic hard-shell face-mask with a removable pleated N99 filter, a flexible TPE gasket, around-the-head elastic adjustable straps, and a clear PolyCarbonate face-shield. It’s a mask that’s built to be worn for long hours without feeling any discomfort, and that pleated N99 filter does a far better job of trapping microparticles and microorganisms than a flat HEPA filter sheet.

The pleated filter isn’t new to purification. It’s found in most domestic and commercial air-purifiers… in fact, open your car’s hood and you’ll see one inside too, filtering air for the car’s AC. The idea of pleating a filter, however, is very new to consumer face masks, but that’s probably because the category has only exploded over the last 6 months. While pleating a filter does make it much more effective, it also contributes to a mask’s thickness, but the guys at Response Laboratory have figured out a balance between effective pleating and an overall sleek design. Respo’s filter exceeds the N99 standards, trapping even the finest particulate matter including viruses, allergens, pollen, and bacteria to deliver 99.5% clean air to your nose and mouth. The filter snaps right into the Respo hard-shell mask, which is engineered with a valve-less design for overall safety. The recycled ABS outer shell creates a spacious chamber inside the mask, while the TPE gasket around the rim ensures the utmost comfort for all face-types (even if you have a beard).

The Respo mask comes in a standard variant as well as a full-face variant outfitted with a face-shield module. Designed to cover your eyes along with purifying air for your nose and mouth, the Full Face Respo mask features a curved PolyCarbonate shield that molds to cover your face by curving around your forehead and temples to create a 180° protective visor. Whether you opt for the full-face variant or the standard variant, the Respo is entirely modular and can be disassembled to either replace the N99 filter or to sanitize the rest of the components. Each mask ships with 10 replaceable N99 filters, giving you over 400 hours of use. The Respo masks come in a range of sizes across a variety of colors, and are set to begin shipping in October 2020.

The YD family hopes you and your loved ones are safe, and that you’re wearing masks and socially distancing.

Designer: William Wood

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Respo – Valve-less Engineered Face Masks

The Respo is a reusable engineered face mask offering advanced protection with N99 efficient filtration.

Comfortable airflow on both inhalation and exhalation through a unique pleated N99 filter. The mask is 100% recyclable and are making their masks available wholesale for healthcare workers around the globe.

 

The Respolab mask has been co-developed by a group of industry leading companies to ensure its performance is as good as it can be. The focus has been on simplicity and quality to create a product that is easily manufactured and cost-effective for the end-user.

The Mask

The Full Face Mask

Replaceable Filter Cartridges

Innovative curved filter: HEPA style H13 material removes 99.97% of particles from air down to 0.3 microns. If you are wearing a mask for any period of time you are really going to notice the difference.

Filter Change & Maintenance

The graphic shows the inadequacies of some more common mask types, especially those with valves that allow the spread of small particles.

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Ditch those dirty cloth masks, this reusable transparent face mask makes it easy to breathe 99% clean air

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The SEEUS95 isn’t what you’d call a ‘conventional’ mask. Designed to be the spiritual successor to the common masks we strap around our faces, and just one step away from us wearing glass spheres around our heads like astronauts, the SEEUS95 is a futuristic take on masks – designed to usher us into the new normal… where masks are prevalent, but aren’t a visual barrier. The SEEUS95 comes with a rather revolutionary design that’s entirely transparent, as effective as an N95 mask, reusable, and attaches to your face without hooking around the ear.

Take some time to watch the video above and you’ll realize that the SEEUS95 wasn’t inspired by traditional masks. In fact, it takes an entirely ground-up approach, starting from scratch to create a new breathing apparatus using the materials currently available to us. The most noticeable thing about the SEEUS95 is the fact that it isn’t really noticeable. Molded out of clear silicone that’s medical-grade, reusable, and easy-to-clean, the mask adheres to your face by gently sticking to the skin around your nose, cheeks, and chin. A unique lining made from a skin-healing vegan polymer called chitosan allows the SEEUS95 to gently hold onto your face. The chitosan creates a secure air-tight fit, preventing the mask from falling off even as you move your mouth, while also having its own skin-benefiting properties that give you a smoother epidermis, making sure you don’t get any ‘mask lines’ around your face. You can even attach ear-hooks as an optional add-on if you’d like an extra layer of security.

The SEEUS95 mask sits on your face almost like an extra layer of skin, creating a breathing-bubble between your mouth and the mask. Slim filters attach to the base (almost like a pair of gills), filtering the air you breathe just like an N95 mask would. These proprietary filters (developed and tested at MIT and the MIT Lincoln Laboratory) come made from a combination of bamboo/cotton, silk, silver, and carbon, to filter the air as well as neutralize any microorganisms. Bamboo and cotton help filter dust and moisture from the air, while the natural electrostatic properties of silk help attract and trap viruses. Nano-silver particles release ions that kill these microorganisms, while carbon helps neutralize any odor molecules, giving you fresh, clean air with every breath you take. The all-natural filters can be periodically replaced too, without creating any long-term waste in the process (a common problem with standard HEPA filters).

Designed as a response to the problems with most current masks on the market today, the SEEUS95 radically approaches how a mask should look, feel, and behave. Partnerships with MIT, University of Massachusetts, and the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command-Soldier Center helped the designers accelerate and validate their prototypes, creating something that isn’t just revolutionary but also passes all the prerequisite tests required to work as a better alternative to a face-mask. Its completely transparent design is much more freeing, allowing people to show their face in public, being able to smile at one another or even communicate with the hearing-disabled. Moreover, the transparent casing even works with smartphones using face-unlock programs. The absence of an ear-hook is perhaps the most ground-breaking feature of them all, as the mask’s silicone and chitosan lining helps naturally and securely fix itself in place, adjusting to your face’s contours, and even working on people with beards. Each mask comes with an anti-fog coating on the inside too, preventing your mask from fogging up too much, and the chitosan layer creates a secure seal to prevent your spectacles from ever fogging up too. The eco-friendly N95 filters on each side help trap dust, smoke, pollution, allergens, while neutralizing germs like bacteria, viruses, and even odor molecules. The reusable nature of the SEEUS95 allows it to last for years with easy maintenance – The N95 filters can be detached and replaced periodically, while the silicone body of the mask can easily be cleaned under a faucet with soap, sterilized in a microwave, or even placed in a dishwasher.

At first glance, the SEEUS95 may seem like the kind of mask that takes getting used to, but that’s just a human response to any new behavior – it took us a while to get used to masks in the first place. Its unique design comes tested by the laboratories at MIT for efficacy and durability, while the transparent build and the absence of ear-loops truly represents a new era of face-masks… and I can’t wait to get my hands on one and try it out.

Designers: Alice Min Soo Chun & Sang Won Jee

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SEEUS95 – A Radical Transparent Shield And Respirator

The SEEUS95 is a reusable, transparent, earloop free and self-adhesive face mask with N95 bio-filter.

SEEUS95 masks can be worn with or without an air-tight seal. Just pull the silicon off the contact point under your chin area and the airtight function will release.

Made from all-natural and environmentally safer materials: Bamboo, Carbon, Silver, Silk, Silicon, and Chitosan.

Here’s the Problem

Millions of face masks made of polypropylene (plastic) are now ending up in the ocean and will stay there 450 years or longer.

Above: Rash and face dents of COVID-19 healthcare workers. The team wanted to put this in the past. They researched materials, incorporated N95 bio-filters, and tested prototypes with their friends and family to bring you a mask that is comfortable, sustainable, and offers better protection than market-leading masks made from non-woven polypropylene or cloth.

Testing SEEUS95

Filters with Natural Fibers

Skin Therapy Layer

How does the SEEUS95 stay on your face? Their proprietary sticky material: Skin Therapy Layer with skin rejuvenating Chitosan. The Skin Therapy Layer does more than just adhere directly to your skin. There’s the added benefit of Skin Therapy Layer healing power: silicone integrated with Chitosan is a natural vegan polymer used for skin healing in medical and beauty products, keeping skin protected, hydrated, healthy, and smooth. Take a look at what happens to the skin of a banana above.

Easy Sanitization

Can be easily cleaned and sanitized in many ways. If you are on the go and need a refresher, just wipe with alcohol. If you’re at home, just pop in the microwave for 3 minutes. Silicone is durable, more ocean-friendly than plastic/air spun polypropylene. It lasts longer, and stands up better against heat and cold than plastics. This is why the mask uses this material.

Founder & Inventor

Alice Min Soo Chun is a former Professor of Architectural Design and Material Technology at Columbia University and Parsons the New School. She is also the founder of Solight Design. In 2018, she was awarded the Patent for Humanity Award by the United States Patent Office for inventions that address global humanitarian crises. Learn more about her story by seeing her TEDxTalk. 

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