With governments and businesses mandating the wearing of face masks left and right, social distancing plastic pods popping up everywhere. It isn't too much of a jump to image a future where we are all forced to walk around in our own bubbles, literally.

Indeed, companies are already rushing to develop exactly that, with one already having received fifty thousand pre-orders for a "Portable Head Pod!"



Known as the "BioVYZR," this bubble is being developed by VYZR technologies, a company that designs protective equipment.

The hazmat-style bubble is made from neoprene, marine vinyl, and ripstop, and has a battery powered N-95 respirator and an anti-fogging viewing window.

The BioVYZR is a personal air-purifying shield designed to get you out back into the world, and keep the world away from you.

✔ Powered Air Purification Respirator Technology
✔ Filters Air Coming In & Out
✔ Positive Pressure Secondary Seal
✔ +12 Hours Filtered Air on One charge

VYZR is charging $250 for the head pod, with Bloomberg News noting that it has received $400,000 already from eager customers wanting to encase their faces in plastic.

It will be interesting to read stories from people wearing these things in high-heat, tropical climates in their summers, or in the high-latitudes during winter months. Will air-conditioning and defrosters be available as optional accessories?

I hope these shields are sound proof!!

Oh my god, we're all going to die.

$.$. Halliburton wrote:Oh my god, we're all going to die.

Yes, the mortality rate of the human race is 100%. It due to the inferiority of carbon based units.

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Ellsworth Toohey wrote:

$.$. Halliburton wrote:Oh my god, we're all going to die.

Yes, the mortality rate of the human race is 100%. It due to the inferiority of carbon based units.

CARBON??? 100% mortality rate?

'pelipsky thought, but it is a mythical horned rodent doin' the thinkin', that Political Climate Change was going to fix all that by making the inferior comrades around TPC™ equal and worth a footprint of Carbon.

Antonio Salazarinski wrote: The hazmat-style bubble is made from neoprene, marine vinyl, and ripstop, and has a battery powered N-95 respirator and an anti-fogging viewing window.

VYZR is charging $250 for the head pod, with Bloomberg News noting that it has received $400,000 already from eager customers wanting to encase their faces in plastic.

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Once again, "Things to Come" predicted this along with the "New Social[ist] Order."

- SK

It will be amusing to see humans attempt to drive their vehicles with these pods in place. Entering and exiting the vehicles thus might be a new Olympics event. And lane-changing without side vision might provide new excitement to NASCAR meets.

I am also wondering whether the front panel would survive a feline claw-swipe, ripstop or no. (Tee hee.)

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This is the Captain Kirk full body Coronavirus suit. It becomes invisible so the viruses can't find him.

My favorite reply to the original article. Mr. Kasper certainly has a point!

RedDiaperette wrote:It will be amusing to see humans attempt to drive their vehicles with these pods in place. Entering and exiting the vehicles thus might be a new Olympics event. And lane-changing without side vision might provide new excitement to NASCAR meets.

Of course, as exemplary progs, they'll be riding bicycles. If they're lucky to have tailwind, they won't even need to rotate the pedals. A headwind, however, may force them to perform the same maneivers a sailship does, going forward in zigzags. Sidewind, of course, will send them falling head first into traffic or into a ditch, but because of the pods they probaby won't feel anything.

"Open the pod bay door please HAL"

"I'm sorry Dave. I can't do that. "

No comrades! You are going in the WRONG direction!!! Here is The Direction™:

Genosse Dummkopf wrote:.

(but stunning solutions were conceptualized already in the early 20th century!)

(and the korrekt term to subsume all of them is, of course: The Cone Of Silence)

Komrade GD, as Cubists, when a problem comes along we must whip it, before the cream sits out too long, we must whip it. When something's gone wrong, we must whip it. Into shape while going floorward moving ahead trying to detect when it's not too late. Whip it good. Crack that whip while giving the past a slip and steppin on a crack to break your momma's back.

Clara Illbustyourballs Zetkin wrote:... as Cubists, when a problem comes along we must whip it ...

        Mystery item No. 2

      Hide it back  (Turn mouse upside down and click. If that doesn't work, try standing on your head)

Whew! Texasistan rules!

Yet : I denonunce, in strongest terms, the whiteness of the whipped substance - even if it originated from a bioorganically sustainable veganously deklimatized quadrupedal specimen!

We here in the People Republic of MN salute you . . .