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 ...

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 ...

Masks have become mandatory and is the new fashion during the Covid-19 pandemic. Wearing a transparent mask can facilitate communication for everyone, minimizing stress and improving interaction.

Allysa Dittmar has built a business most entrepreneurs dream of. It put its products on the market in April—and, about seven months later, has sold around 12 million of them. Her business? Making ...

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 ...

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 ...

What to Know Before Making and Wearing a DIY Mask That's why for the last two years, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science ...

A Swiss startup called HMCARE, spun out of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, has raised a million Swiss Francs (equivalent to about $1.05 million) to commercialize its transparent and ...