Surgical masks and hardware 'comfort' masks are uncomfortable and sweaty. They don't even screen all particles.

I propose either:

(A) For dust - a powerful ioniser tie-pin/ broach that zaps a large proportion of the dust and other nasties as it reaches the face; or

(B) For disease - a mask with a clear inhalation path with an ionising filter. Exhalation path has a filter, because high velocity sneezes and coughs cannot be precipitated quickly enough by an ionizer.
-- FloridaManatee, Apr 22 2003

Ozone Generators Considered Harmful. http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/ozonegen.html
[johnmeacham, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

Tremendous! Instead of inhaling dust particles which can be filtered out by the structures nature provided, I get to inhale ozone which is poisonous. Sorry, [FM]; fishy.
-- angel, Apr 22 2003


Ozone can be bound and I'm not sure enough would be created to outweigh the benefits.

Point taken, though.
-- FloridaManatee, Apr 22 2003


Cost nothwithstanding, this is a pretty neat idea. [ + ]
-- joker_of_the_deck, Apr 22 2003


Given SARS, I'd hop on marketing this one...
-- DrCurry, Apr 22 2003


Certainly in sufficient concentrations ozone is harmful; of course, the same can be said for just about anything. I have not seen anything to suggest that chronic exposure to levels significantly below those required to cause immediate harm cause any sort of cumulative damage, however.
-- supercat, Apr 22 2003


Oh, I thought this idea was for a facial lioniser. Grrrowl.
-- Worldgineer, Apr 22 2003



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