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Hide-a-Mask: On-Demand Face Mask That Pops Out of a Baseball Cap

As face mask adoption grows among the sensible, innovative designs like this will emerge

By Rain Noe - July 16, 2020

The Hide-a-Mask is an innovative face mask design that tucks away inside a ball cap. It can be pulled on in just seconds:

This is perfect for those of us in non-urban areas, where we do not have to wear a mask the second we leave our homes. In regions like mine, you leave the house and drive mask-free, then put your mask on before entering a store. In this sunny weather I've never forgotten my hat, but have forgotten my mask twice and had to turn around to drive back home. The Hide-a-Mask would've come in handy then.

Here's the Kickstarter pitch:

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What I'd really love to see, though I realize it would be trickier for the end user to execute, is a version that buyers could retrofit to existing hats.

At press time the Hide-a-Mask had $9,256 in pledges on a $12,000 goal, with 29 days left to pledge.

Comments

Danielle Martin

2 years ago

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In any case, the mask is a barrier. Anyone wearing a mask in a pandemic context should consider that their mask may be infected. If you are asymptomatic, you would have covid-19 particles on the inside surface of the mask. If you meet a person that is infected with the covid-19, you may have some particles on the outside of the mask. For these reasons, you should never place back the mask inside the cap after wearing it. I believe that this 'hiding-back-mask' is a bad design for a pandemic context.

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stephen knifton

2 years ago

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i thought you were a designer, Noe ? would it occur to you or anyone to wonder how it works in reverse ? how long it takes to load back into place (hidden) once it's been deployed once ?
hide-a-mask makes me think it's easy to pull down ... then retract just as easily. but we don't know ... nor do we see that ... which makes me think it's more like a parachute: you need to painstakingly repack it every time, and only good for one deployment.

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- Eric Salinas
  
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  Watch the video, at 1:50 they show how to 'hide' the mask.
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  The illustration shows that the mask has embedded magnets that secure it to the hat brim, making it easy to fold back into place. Easier than repacking a parachute.
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    2 years ago
    
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    He may have exaggerated but his point remains the same. How easy is it to put it back in to it's "hidden" position? One would imagine it's not as easy as pulling it down. Do you have to take the hat off every time you're done with the mask? That would definitely have a negative impact on usability.
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Donald Jones

2 years ago

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This with my hide-a-flask underwear and I'm all set to go.

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Rain Noe

I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.