Don’t you just hate it when you have to take an important phone call and you’re surrounded by potential eavesdroppers(偷听者)? You either have to whisper or go outside to keep the conversation private, which isn’t exactly ideal. Now, a new gadget aims to fix this problem by muffling your voice.
Hushme is a high-tech mask that blocks the sound of the wearer’s voice so that people nearby can’t hear what is being said. It connects to your phone via Bluetooth and comes with a pair of earphones. When you get a private call, all you have to do is to put the mask on and it’ll do the rest. The pair of thick cushy pads(软垫盖) over your mouth does a good job of muffling your voice, but to ensure nothing gets through, Hushme also features external speakers that play a variety of sounds when you speak.
The Hushme mask, which comes in a variety of colors, can be worn around the neck, like a regular pair of earphones, and attaches in front of your mouth thanks to a couple of very powerful magnets. However, it’s not clear how comfortable speaking with this mask over your mouth really is, or how effective its speech muffling ability is; so all we know so far is that it makes you look weird.
While Hushme is promoted as a phone call privacy protection device, you could always use it to protect your ears from loud mouth co-workers in the office. Just slap this baby over their mouths and you can get on with your work.
Advertised as the “world’s first voice mask for mobile phones”, Hushme was unveiled at CES(国际消费类电子产品博览会), at the beginning of this year. It’s not commercially available yet, but its makers plan to start a crowd funding campaign in May, and to start selling it by the end of the year. It’s reported that it’ll cost around $200.
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