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Razer forced to pay more than $1M in refunds for its RGB 'surgical N95 respirators' that were not N95 respirators | Razer billed the Zephyr as an N95 mask, and the FTC says that was a lie.

Razer billed the Zephyr as an N95 mask, and the FTC says that was a lie.

Concerns about the Zephyr's supposed National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) rating surfaced a year after it was first announced, when specimens began appearing in public. Tech YouTuber Naomi Wu called out the lack of NIOSH certification, and our own hardware honcho Dave James noted in his appraisal of the device that, while it granted him a certain Bane-style drip, it is "not a medical grade mask designed to be worn in a hospital setting." "These businesses falsely claimed, in the midst of a global pandemic, that their face mask was the equivalent of an N95 certified respirator," FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection director Samuel Levine said in a statement(via Kotaku).

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