Let’s get a rather important fact out of the way first: it’s just a concept. Little boys reading this should cross it off their list to Father Christmas now, before their hopes rise even higher.
It’s always nerve-wracking when the person beside you on a plane is coughing, but I’d imagine that them wearing this mask would only heighten the effect.
This respirator mask design by Elijah Stillson is meant to have comfort AND function, ensuring that when a biological attack does hit, you won’t even notice that you’re wearing a mask. You will notice the dead bodies, however. [Yanko Design]
The WHO has raised the Swine Flu—which you can follow in this map or through Twitter—to alert level 5, which means a pandemic is imminent. Not funny. Some people, however, are having fun.
For no good reason at all, the guys at Rathergood made a series of gas mask kazoos. All they need is one more member to make the scariest barbershop quartet ever assembled.
It’s not quite a Mission Impossible latex replace-a-face, but it’ll do for these frigid times. And as with everything related to Ledger’s Joker, the gravitas is off the charts. [Amazon via Great White Shark]
When I go on my diving vacation at the end of this month, I won’t be bringing this video mask. Why anyone would like to attach dumb headlights to vital diving gear is beyond me.
