Crowdfunded Covid-19 Mask Also Translates

The neat thing about living in this “technology age” is that there’s seems to be someone out there always thinking about how to improve things.

That’s why there’s tremendous hope that a Covid-19 vaccine will be available sooner than ever thought possible.

With the help of a crowdfunding campaign that raised ~$260,000, Japanese tech company Donut has invented and manufactured the “c-mask.”

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Per the Daily Mail, the c-mask not only protects you from the corona virus, but “can also covert a person’s speech into text and then translate it into eight different languages through a smartphone app.” The company plans on having about 5,000 c-masks available by September.

It will be great for traveling when we can all travel again.

(No endorsement implied).

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8472109/Researchers-create-smart-mask-COVID-19-speaker-translation-software.html

About JeffKoeppel

I am a corporate/securities attorney in the Washington, DC area. Prior to joining the firm, I was a Senior Attorney Advisor in the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. I am a member of the Bars of the States of Maryland, New York and the District of Columbia. You can also follow this blog on LinkedIn at: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeffrey-a-koeppel/0/63/5a9
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