On Saturday, the gaming gear company Razer removed language from its website describing the filters in its Zephyr masks as "N95 grade." Users are supposed to switch out the masks' filter inserts, made and sold by Razer, every 72 hours.
Marketing materials gave the impression that both masks offered N95 grade protection, which are supposed to seal around your face and protect from 95 percent of airborne particles - and that's where the company got into trouble.
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While the Zephyr came out in mid-2021, Razer launched the Pro version of the mask, containing voice amplification, at CES during the first week of January. Razer removed this entire section of its website that gave readers the impression they'd be getting "N95 grade" protection.
And how you can protect yourself when shopping for COVID protection. Here's how a skeptical reviewer helped call out Razer's dangerous marketing of the futuristic-looking mask with changing, customizable lights and a cool translucent cover. That's true for all sorts of health products, but when it comes to protecting against COVID, it might be all the more important to you. Sounding like official medical information by using jargon and putting up difficult-to-understand graphs doesn't make that information sound, or the product worthwhile. But it's also a reminder to anyone in the market for a mask, test, or other COVID-related product in the wake of the Omicron variant surge to not take a company's claims at face value. The kerfuffle around Razer recently removing "N95 grade" language from mask descriptions is certainly not a good look for the gaming gear company. The color-changing lights and futuristic look of Razer's Zephyr and Zephyr Pro face masks almost made everyone forget what masks are actually supposed to do: Protect wearers from COVID.
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