Ming the Merciless
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So it needs a torque sensor instead. Or it just be tuned to listen to steam engine breathing noises.
Motorised pollution mask?
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So it needs a torque sensor instead. Or it just be tuned to listen to steam engine breathing noises.
Ming the Merciless
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How about some glasses with a motor that creates an airflow to reduce pollen particles getting into the eyes and nose?
classic33
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Deafie
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I always imagined such a device as filtering the air away from the face (in a back pack or on the handle bars,) and blowing clean air into a nose piece via a tube
I can see you're not an engineer
Easily solved by routing the air supply via a tilt valve attached to the crossbar - full flow when at an angle of 45 degrees to the horizontal and falling gradually as as the angle reduces.
classic33
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You've to lean forward on some inclines round these parts.I can see you're not an engineer
Globalti
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Instead of designing a mask for the inlet end, why not help Humanity by designing an extractor for the outlet end? There's nothing worse than the under-duvet consequences of eating beans or drinking beer and I've often wondered if I could build a bottom extractor for the bedroom. It would need a soft vinyl hose about 2" diameter with a harness that keeps it close to the bottom and a small 12v fan at the outlet, which you could hang out of the window. The fan could be the same as are used for cooling computers, virtually silent and powerful enough to produce a steady area of low pressure in the pelvic region under the duvet. It might save many a relationship.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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I can't see it working. The amount of air circulated by someone exercising will soon cause any mask to be soggy. Plus they mostly dont work after one use (see posts above)
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
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Have you seen R-Shields? I'd rather wear one of these than a heavy motorised mask.
https://www.r-shields.com/
https://www.r-shields.com/
KneesUp
Guru
Speaking as a spectacles wearer, wipers would be good too.
classic33
Leg End Member
Their weak point seems to be the all important seal against the skin not being complete.
Ming the Merciless
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How about a little turbine that mounts on the handlebars and measures the relative wind speed then sends that via bluetooth to a GPS or phone. You know how many cyclists like data?.
Lot's of stuff to get your teeth into with that.
Lot's of stuff to get your teeth into with that.
cyberknight
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Rather than a motor how about a big funnel that uses the speed of the bike to collect the air?