Elon Mask conveyed his concern about the ‘onerous’ N95 face mask back in March.
With Mercedes making baby strollers and Audi manufacturing designer chairs, Scottish company Lease Fetcher wondered:
With the high-tech Elon Mask, you can connect with your mobile to listen to music, make calls to the built-in mic and bone conduction headphones, and you can summon your Tesla.
Meanwhile, a real-time audio enhancer enables you to hear a mask-wearing person talking in front of you with clarity.
Elon Mask also boasts a handy distance alert.
If a mask senses someone breaking social distancing, the rear lights will flash to warn those behind that they’re too close.
Handy for standing in line at the supermarket!
“Elon and his team of engineers are known for challenging the norm and we wouldn’t be surprised to hear them working on a wide range of supplementary gadgets for their electric vehicles, maybe even a face mask” says Will Craig, founder of Lease Fetcher.
Although it is just a product idea, the Elon Mask may be a reminder for businesses to consider producing their own personal protective equipment.
If Tesla’s brief history of industry-changing innovations is something to go by,
Only time can tell us what new technologies we can hope to see from their headquarters in Palo Alto.