Experts at Hong Kong Lingnan University have created a new transparent face mask which they say enables barrier-free communication. While it's a breakthrough for the hearing impaired who may need to ...

As mask-wearing becomes the new norm around the world, researchers from the EPFL and Empa in Switzerland have come up with a way to improve at least one of the many challenges of wearing face ...

Professor Ko's team in Seoul National University announced that they have developed a new type of transparent air filtering device that can not only self-sterilize its surface by chemical and thermal ...

CORNWALL - Lia Matthews has been sewing face masks since the coronavirus pandemic hit the region. Last week she started making special masks after she heard about how frustrated people who are deaf ...

With 80 percent face mask compliance, we could beat the coronavirus in no time flat — but now that mask wearing has become so politicized, it’s probably impossible to reach that number. Still, making ...

One of the major drawbacks of a face mask is that it hides the wearer’s smile. Baltimore-based ClearMask LLC has solved that problem by developing a transparent mask that reveals a person’s facial ...

First-of-its-kind study published in the Journal of American Medical Association Surgery says improved patient-provider communication through the ClearMask™ could lead to better patient outcomes, ...

The Hill may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you buy through our links. We missed plenty of things during the last year, from international vacations and crowded sporting ...

Commercially available transparent face masks allow for the perception of facial expressions while suppressing the dispersion of respiratory droplets that spread the SARS-CoV-2, and thus have a clear ...

Imagine lying on the operating table under bright lights, about to undergo surgery. You can tell that your doctors are speaking to you, but you can't hear a word they're saying; and you can't lip-read ...