Covid? I thought gamers were rising up!
So…do we have reusable respirators that block >=95% of particles 0.3 microns in size yet??
That still uses disposable filters. So maybe it reduces the amount of waste by 10%?
Do we have one that has reusable filters? I mean a filter you can use for at least 10 years.
I mean, use for 10 years by what metric? A woodworker is gonna block up that filter in a few months, someone who works in a hospice might get a few years, and triage nurses might burn through them in half that simply due to moving fast. Also I think 10 years might be a bit of a stretch in general, I’ve never known a mask filter to last that long in any model I’ve used
I’m referring to the pandemic. Use for 10 years by a nurse breathing average hospital air 40 hours per week.
I want something washable, not disposable.
Create a copper/silver mesh that is 3 micron and breath to your heats content.
*now for only $199,999.95!
Does something like that exist?
The 3m 6035 filter only has a replacement schedule for infection control reasons, implying the outside may become too contaminated.
It was the original pandemic filter (there is a model up that does organic vapours too), marketed as being used for at least one pandemic wave.
No filter will last 10 years of daily use, at some point even your washable car filters or cleanable air purifier filters clog up and break down. But these are very long lasting for what they do, and I can see someone being able to stretch them out to one every six months, if in a hospital setting.
You do understand that all materials degrade right? Something that needs to block put particles so incredibly small isn’t going to be reusable. In a medical setting you would likely not want to have to handle the contaminated filter anyways, so being able to replace one with 100% efficiency would sound like the right move.
Yeah, there are plenty of P3 and N95 filters for reusable respirators, here are some for the 3M 6000 mask series:
Don’t those use disposal filters?
So?
You still reuse the respirator
It says they used N95 meltbkown filters.
I don’t understand how that would not make the product N95, then
If it’s got N95 filters in it, but the design is flawed in such a way that air can just flow around the filters even with ideal fitment, then the mask as a whole is not N95. Now, maybe their design wasn’t flawed, we don’t actually know that, but N95 is a NIOSH standard only given to products that NIOSH has received and tested to be at a certain standard; Razer neglected to submit their masks to NIOSH in order to get an official rating. Razer could have performed their own tests and listed the level of particulates it blocks at various levels, but marketing it as an N95 respirator implied NIOSH had verified it when they hadn’t, which is fraud.
Because the seals on the mask itself weren’t rated and they didn’t go through FDA authorization. You HAVE to go through FDA clearance if you want to claim your product meets medical standards.
This and xupermask are just cringe consoomer mush. It’s honestly shocking to me the trust that people put into celebrities and tech companies. Capitalists “disrupting” a regulated industry should be a big red flag.
I thought everyone forgot this existed. Apparently not.
“It was never our intention to mislead people.”
Then why make false claims?
ChannelNewsAsia – nahhh
Naomi Wu was right.
RIP
They got to weasel out of admitting wrong doing as part of the settlement?
What a joke
That’s how it goes all too often with these settlements, sadly. Remember when Fox News got to settle with Dominion over the fact that they knowingly pushed election fraud claims that they privately knew to be false? They just paid their fine and went right back to business as usual.
Well at least Tucker was fired over it?
Sometimes in chess you sacrifice a pawn
It wasn’t though, I was specifically researching it and the Xupermask from Will.i.am and neither promised N95 capability, in fact, they both specifically stated they WEREN’T N95.
Pages are down now, so there’s nothing to link to, but if it had been N95 I would have bought one. They weren’t.
The article brings that up.
“The complaint alleges that Razer only stopped the false advertising following negative press coverage and consumer outrage at the deceptive claims,” said FTC.
In fact, after a little bit of research of my own, I found an Engadget article with quote from a Razer representative stating, “To avoid any confusion, we are in the process of removing all references to ‘N95 Grade Filter’ from our marketing material.”
lol “to avoid any confusion” …
yeah, it’s your fault you were confused, you stupid baboon. what part of ‘N95 Grade Filter’ made you confuse this mask for an N95 alternative?
The filter may have been N95 grade, but the mask itself was not and could never be.
Yeah, it makes a nice deception, and is legally ok, or at least they thought so
The complaint alleges that Razer only stopped the false advertising following negative press coverage and consumer outrage at the deceptive claims,
Unless you saved a picture of the thing, they stopped advertising it almost immediately. I’ll take investigators words over your story though. No offense.
What’s Inside
Razer Zephyr with adjustable head straps 3 sets of N95 grade filters for 9 Days of usage USB-C Charging Cable Anti-fog sprayFANS
2 Speed High (6200 RPM) / Low (4200 RPM) Dual intake fansFILTER
N95 grade meltblown filters* 99% BFE rating Able to filter at least 95% of 0.3 microns particles *Sold in special refill packs on razer.comhttps://web.archive.org/web/20211025004539/https://www.razer.com/gear-accessories/razer-zephyr
Oh wow, Razer was selling masks? Seriously? That’s wild, I must’ve missed that completely. What’s even wilder is that a bunch of people apparently decided that their best option for respiratory filters is, of all things, a gaming company. And one with a shaky QC history at that.
I was very interested in buying one; the details looked OK, and it wasn’t a use-once product like those flimsy blue face masks. This was early on when no end was in sight so it seemed like a decent move, and was at least interesting visually.
I ended up not buying one since they took forever from announcement to actual public sale, and I’d talked myself out of it.
I think i saw the masks on display inside one of the casino lobbies in Vegas when I was there last year. It looked “fine” as an accessory unit, too tacky for most people, but i didnt think it was advertised as an N95.
The fact it uses clear plastic for the mouth has to be a crime, surely.
The original point was to make it easier to understand people as you could actually see their mouth. A problem sure, but it solution it wasn’t.
Just as much a crime as apple vision pro with their LED eyes
Could you imagine a world in which both products catch on? I shudder just to think about it
Note that n95 is the minimum grade for biohazard and industrial work. It meams it’ll get large particulates (like corona viruses) but not small ones and aerosolized oil (such as spray paint) will fuck your mask.
Fuck up your disposable fabric mask?
Yes, as in render it unable to filter air, either by blocking it, or by punching holes in it that admit larger particles.
I remember making fun of it in some discord, imagine spending so much r&d into some RGB gadget instead of contributing to research during COVID, the only certificates they had were for electrical products, none for health stuff
This is from the E3 (or whatever that events name was) announcement
They actually just meant it was suitable for use with the Nokia N95 phone.
Damn that was my favourite phone. sigh ‘Twas a simpler time.
