Razer Made a Pro Version of Its Wild RGB Face Mask—Now With Bonus Screaming Feature

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Every CES, Razer reveals some far-out idea (like this 12 months’s Project Sophia) that grabs the headlines and excites its fanbase, however by no means materializes into an actual product. That modified when Razer’s Project Hazel, an RGB-illuminated good face masks, gained sufficient fanfare to power Razer into really promoting the factor.

Despite it trying like a rave masks made for our inevitable dystopian cyberpunk future, Project Hazel, renamed Razer Zephyr, offered out inside minutes and remains to be as tough to purchase at this time as an N95 masks in the beginning of the pandemic.

At CES 2022, Razer is unveiling a brand new model of the masks with a function that didn’t make it into the unique. The Zephyr Pro is actually the identical masks because the Zephyr however with voice amplification built-in so that you don’t sound muffled talking by means of the plastic defend.

Wait, however didn’t it have already got that function? It did as an idea, however not when it launched. Razer advised us that eradicating the function allowed the corporate to get to a extra accessible $99 value level. Indeed, this single addition will increase the associated fee by $50, bringing the Zephyr Pro to $150.

You’ll discover the Zephyr Pro seems barely totally different from the entrance than the usual mannequin. That’s as a result of two small speaker grilles flank the exhalation grill and are connected to a microphone within the silicone mildew casing to amplify your voice by 60 decibels for as much as one meter. A small button on facet of the masks subsequent to the consumption valve (these RGB canisters) enables you to flip amplification on and off, which Razer explains can save battery life.

Everything else in regards to the Zephyr Pro (which isn’t FDA-approved, by the best way) matches the cheaper mannequin, together with the N95 respirators embedded in a clear defend. The largest draw to this masks, I suppose, is the 2 giant air flow valves with RGB mild rings round them, together with the inside RGBs that shine a light-weight in your mouth so your face is seen in darkish situations.

While I respect an organization utilizing its assets to make a product that might defend folks by means of the pandemic, it takes a sure individual to put on the Zephyr. The masks is, nicely, loud, each visually and audibly—the Zephyr Pro seems like a futuristic fuel masks and studies declare the followers on the within of the unique Zephyr make a low whine. Still, if that is your aesthetic, then the Zephyr will prevent from utilizing these usually uncomfortable single-use N95 masks.

The Zephyr Pro will go on sale “sometime this year” for $150—and don’t neglect to purchase filters, which value $30 for 10 and are good for 3 days every.