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The mask, called the Triton, consists of two branching arms designed to serve as "gills" that extract oxygen from the water and deliver breathable air directly into their wearer's lungs.
Instead of hauling around heavy scuba equipment, swimmers could simply bite down on a plastic mouth piece.
Designer Jeabyun Yeon's odd-looking and quite innovative concept scuba mask works by turning people into fish, Trend Hunter explains.
More precisely, it would allow you to breathe underwater without having to carry heavy equipment around.
The same source details that the scuba mask, dubbed the Triton Oxygen Respirator, is made up of a plastic mouthpiece and two arms.
The person wearing it is supposed to bite down on the mouthpiece, and breathe in whatever air the two arms produce.
In case anyone was wondering, the arms work by sucking in water and separating the oxygen in it. The oxygen helps keep the diver alive, whereas the remaining liquid is squirted out.
As detailed on Yanko Design, "Triton uses a new technology of artificial gill model. It extracts oxygen under water through a filter in the form of fine threads with holes smaller than water molecules."
Furthermore, "Using a very small but powerful micro compressor, it compresses oxygen and stores the extracted oxygen in storage tank. The micro compressor operates through micro battery."
Thus, the scuba mask's two side arms are very much similar to the run-off-the-mill gills that fish sport.
Designer Jeabyun Yeon says that, unlike other scuba masks, his Triton Oxygen Respirator lets folks enjoy a "pristine and peaceful" dive.
Otherwise put, it allows divers to focus on the aquatic wonders around them instead of on trying to make head and tail of what the oxygen mask and its accompanying not-so-small tank are up to.
All in all, it's a cool enough concept, but it is doubtful it will ever make it out the studio and into the water.
Reader Comments
It can't deliver a full lungs capacity of air... especially down below 10 meters where the atmospheres, or bars are more. At those depths, the gases are compressed, and it would take like 10 litres of air to fill a 5 litre lung capacity. The deeper you go the more volume of gas it must deliver. Also it says pure O2 is delivered...umm, I thought that gets toxic to humans after a certain depth?
Anyhow, interesting, and certainly innovative, but not very practical imho.
Pravdaseeker
Oxygen off from the H2O, doesn't that leave free hydrogen?
An effective way and cheap way to harvest hydrogen solves all the world's current and future energy needs and most of the energy industries' pollution problems too.
So obviously that can't be right.
no offence sott, not ur fault. i believe they r refering to disolved atmoshere. y they would say o2 is beyond me though ive seen worse copy/paste articles. to refer to the one comment by pravadaseeker about air volume. the reason we need a large volume of air when we fill our tanks up here is cause the pressure inside ur lungs has to b the same as the surrounding pressure to not crush ur chest. ie when ur at, 5ft ur air is at 0-5 psi as u go down the pressure around u increases and so ur equipment ups the pressure to keep pace. this is y u get the bends if u come up to fast or if u depresurise in space they say ur blood boils. it doesnt boil but appears to cause of the pressure in the air it all comes out. so if ur breathing dissoled air that is in the pressureized water way down its already taken care of that for u. however u would have to go up or down at a controlled pace cause of this.