Assessment: I wore Razer’s Zephyr N95 masks for 2 weeks so that you don’t need to

Enlarge / Writer Sam Machkovech wears the Razer Zephyr masks out in public. (credit score: Steve Haske)

For the previous two weeks, I’ve carried the $99 Razer Zephyr masks with me just about in every single place I am going—however that is not the identical as sporting it.

Razer’s first foray into the world of high-tech wearables comes within the type of an “N95-grade” face masks that claims to go above and past what you may anticipate from material choices. The corporate set expectations fairly excessive with the masks’s preliminary prototype reveal in January, solely to chop down options to make the masks cheaper and lighter. But this launch model remains to be a far cry from the fabric masks which can be so ubiquitous nowadays.

And because it’s from Razer, a peripheral producer finest recognized for neon-tinged gaming mice, headphones, and keyboards, the masks seems to be putting. Take a look at it! The Razer Zephyr is principally a gaming mouse that you just strap to your face, RGB lighting and all. So I had to strive it.