[News]
"At 1:00 AM Beijing time today, A-Mask held a product launch event, unveiling the new smart mask A-Mask Series 7. The event drew over 340 million viewers worldwide. Compared to previous models, the Series 7 features significant performance upgrades and has been hailed as the world's best smart mask to date. Here is a summary of the A-Mask Series 7's key features, to help you decide whether to upgrade."
New Air, New "Joy"
Smart Mask A-Mask Series 7
1. Equipped with the "Mask7 Filtration System"—faster and more effective filtration of polluted air for healthier travel.
2. Instant activation upon wearing. The "New Expression System" detects your skin tone, seamlessly blending the mask's facial features with your own face.
3. The "New Expression System" has been fully upgraded, allowing fully personalized custom expressions. Display natural-looking lip expressions as if you weren't wearing a mask—effortlessly showcasing a dainty cherry mouth or bold red lips, creating a standard smile without any practice! 3D profile technology makes the mouth appear realistic even from a side angle. A-Mask also offers multiple nose bridge options, tailored to the curve of your own nose—just remember, choosing the one that fits you best is what shows you at your most beautiful.
4. The highlight of this upgrade: a synchronized voice system. It faithfully reproduces your voice without that muffled quality, and the mouth on the mask moves in sync with your words—instant and seamless.
5. Beyond simulating realistic expressions from nose to chin, you can also activate the "Original Expression System" to add emoji, retro little-S faces, and E-cra-cra reaction stickers. Chatting with friends? Use stickers to close the distance. When these expressions are active, the mask background automatically turns white for optimal display.
6. The ear-loop section retains its non-fitted design for easy removal. But the upgraded "Mask7 Smart Chip" features powerful brain-wave sensing—just think of an expression, and the mask switches it instantly. Its penetration-based signal reception adds an extra layer of tech sophistication.
7. As with previous versions, the standard "Fitness System" is included, tracking your exercise data.
A-Mask Series 7 comes in two models:
Model One: Standard Edition
Features all of the above, but without the "Mask7 Smart Chip" brain-wave sensing. Expressions can only be changed via smartphone.
Price: 10,888 yuan
Model Two: Premium Edition
Features all of the above, plus smartphone-controlled expression changes.
Price: 19,888 yuan
Available for purchase starting today.
"In short, the A-Mask Series 7 makes it look like you're not wearing a mask at all!"
1
Air quality was getting worse and worse. Technology was advancing at breakneck speed, so why was the environment deteriorating? Every morning when Bella Zhong woke up and saw the smog-engulfed city, she couldn't help wondering if it was all a conspiracy by the smart mask manufacturers.
Smart masks were also getting more expensive. Since A-Mask debuted its first smart air-purifying mask, what had begun as a simple device to block particulate matter had evolved into a multi-functional gadget. It not only filtered inhaled air to make it fresh, it also let people display facial expressions while wearing it face to face.
What amazed Bella the most was that even from the side, the mask appeared to have the contours of a nose and mouth. It exploited some quirk of human vision, creating a 3D profile effect so convincing it was almost indistinguishable from a real face.
Bella actually liked the sticker feature.
Walking to work each day, she could offer passersby a charming, perfectly calibrated smile. Under the mask, her own face might be stone-cold indifferent, but who cared? Everyone was the same—flaunting hypocritical smiles, with or without a mask. There was really no difference.
There were some minor annoyances, though. When a colleague used their own lip shape for their expression, they were still recognizable. But if someone used a PS-modified, carefully curated expression... sometimes it was genuinely hard to tell who was who.
The mask had become a facade, and everyone lived behind a facade. People had grown used to it. Bella had too.
If you can't recognize someone, just smile and ask their name, Bella told herself.
"But I heard the police are really frustrated. Once criminals put on the expression-customizable masks, they don't even fear security cameras," a short-haired female colleague remarked. Bella shifted slightly.
"Eh, who cares about the police. Technology has pros and cons. Besides, they'll figure it out. Fingerprint and hair analysis takes, like, one second these days, doesn't it?" another coworker chimed in.
The short-haired colleague nodded, pulled down her mask, took a sip of coffee, and hastily put it back on.
Nowadays, aside from eating and drinking, people seemed reluctant to ever remove their masks. You never knew whether the air at the office or at home might be worse than outside. Better to keep the mask on and let the filtration system deliver fresh air!
"Ah, I wish I could eat and drink while wearing my A-Mask..." Bella chimed in, wanting to join their conversation.
Her custom expression was a dainty cherry mouth that suited her large eyes perfectly—cute and charming. When she spoke, her lips pouted slightly, but in a way that was endearing, not cloying. Occasionally, a small vampire tooth would peek through—that had cost her 288 yuan on the Expression Marketplace, valid for six months.
"Someone did release a nose-plug filter thing, but bacteria and particles can still slip in through your mouth. You can't exactly plug your mouth shut, can you? So masks are still the way to go. But the technical challenge of eating and drinking with a mask on… Right now everyone scarfs down their meals in a race against time, terrified of accidentally inhaling something harmful," the short-haired colleague said.
She'd chosen slightly fuller lips with what looked like YSL shade No. 12 lipstick—488 yuan on the Expression Marketplace, valid for three months.
Bella stared for half a minute before offering a sincere compliment: "Your lipstick color is really pretty."
"Yours is nice too—Chanel No. 42?"
"Yep."
"That's 488 too, right? How long does it last?"
"Three months."
"Ah, just as I thought..."
The office carried on like this—half-hearted work punctuated by idle chatter. Topics could leap from tech to beauty in an instant, and then pivot to motherhood just as fast.
Bella was thinking exactly this when her colleague suddenly asked, "By the way, Bella, are you still single?"
"Ah—yeah."
They'd pivoted to matchmaking already? Bella felt like screaming.