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 ...

Known as HelloMasks, the new face coverings are meant to replace ... but at the time, there wasn't any transparent material that could also be porous for breathing. So EPFL and Empa researchers ...

The Sapphire Transparent Armor from Saint-Gobain's SAFirE products provides a strike face that can stop a range of ballistic threats, and its makers say it may soon be used as a face shield for ...

That is why transparent face masks and shields, while costly compared with classic counterparts, could prove a boon for the deaf and hard of hearing in the coronavirus era. The concept has started ...