This is 100% April Fools, right?
Air-purifying headphones with active noise cancelling
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#12Is this an early April fools joke?
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#14Not April 1st yet...
As soon as I saw the video, I thought they were a few days early.
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#15Just need some AR glasses to completely seal yourself off from your surroundings.
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#16Two days early!
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#17A lot of negativity here but I guess the target market is locations where the air pollution is bad enough that the benefits of escaping it outweigh looking like an extra from a sci-fi B-movie. I remember hearing on the radio in London how air pollution was going to be very bad one day approaching 10 on some scale. A scientist was being interviewed and was asked "Where would the pollution in Beijing be on this scale?", he replied "About 300"
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#18A.K.A 'Snot Cannon'
I can see this has having the similar type of negative public health impact as the Dyson Blade dryers in public toilets, simply circulating fecal matter further in an enclosed space.
Naomi Wu with the critique: https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/150912514143903334...
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#19Considering how much backlash there is around valved respirators, a purification system that blasts aerosolized droplets of spit out into the air seems like an obvious failure
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#20Bold design. Reminds me of Scorpion and, "get over here" from Mortal Kombat - https://www.deviantart.com/bakerrrr/art/Scorpion-GET-OVER-HE...
I think I prefer the Scorpion design to this