That's why we're taken by the Razer Project Hazel, arguably the most high-end face-mask concept we've seen since COVID-19 began ravaging the globe.

Razer's sales pitch alleges that this shouldn't be surprising at all, since the company repurposed at least one of its production lines to pump out over a million disposable, surgical-grade face masks in 2020.

Project Hazel immediately reinforces the company's affinity for customizable lighting grids, thanks to two rings of light—which support 16.8 million colors, because, why not—circling the mask's ventilation slots.

After laughing about that aesthetic overkill, however, we generally nodded in agreement with Project Hazel's concept.

Plus, there's the matter of fan-driven noise and battery-driven heat, both of which have to be distributed neatly to guarantee the Project Hazel sales pitch of comfortably leaving the mask on in public for long spans of time.

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