The team conducted two separate experiments, one using images of female faces and the other using images of male faces, expressing a range of expressions. The images were taken from a published ...

A Greenpoint woman has started making transparent face masks to help the hard of hearing who rely on reading lips obscured by more traditional face coverings amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “Somebody who ...

Transparent facemasks and shields are costly compared with classic counterparts but could prove a boon for the deaf and hard of hearing battling to communicate in the coronavirus era. The concept has ...

A Swiss team has spent the past two years developing a transparent, breathable material that it hopes will replace traditional face masks. With the spread of the coronavirus, face masks have become a ...

It's not the first face mask to include a transparent area to help those with hearing impairments communicate. But this 3D-printed one is fully transparent and reuseable. Compulsory mask-wearing has ...

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 ...

A woman has sewn 100 transparent face masks to allow deaf people to lip read and feel 'safe and included' amid the coronavirus crisis. Claire Cross, 45, from Devon, called her masks — fitted with a ...

Suzy Margueron, a retiree in Paris, usually walks five miles a day, so she knew something was wrong when she barely had the energy to make it to the grocery store in the spring. As it turned out, she ...

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 ...

Transparent facemasks and shields are costly compared with classic counterparts but could prove a boon for the deaf and hard of hearing battling to communicate in the coronavirus era. The concept has ...