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 ...

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 ...

A group of Johns Hopkins University graduate students and alumni have received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its new fully transparent surgical face mask. The privately ...

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 ...

"Deaf people really rely on expression and facial cues, and a lot of hard of hearing individuals rely on lip reading," tells PEOPLE Nigel Smith is the Senior Movies News Editor for PEOPLE. He is an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A sign language translator with a transparent face mask Photo: screenshot of a video of Xinhua on Sina Weibo As the COVID-19 pandemic lingers on and face masks become a normal part of daily life, the ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – As Belgium obliges people to wear face masks on public transport and recommends them elsewhere to limit the spread of the coronavirus, deaf people are calling for transparent ...