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We previewed Skyted's voice-capturing mask last week, but when I came across the startup at CES 2024, I had to check it out for myself in person. You can

If, for example, you’re sitting in an airplane, you don’t want the person next to you to hear what you’re saying,” says Gauthier Daridon, connectivity engineer at Skyted, in an interview with TechCrunch at CES in Las Vegas. Personally, I’m still a little puzzled for the use cases for this device, and I’m struggling to think of that many situations where you absolutely have to talk, where you can’t be overheard, and where wearing something like this would be socially acceptable. So far, it seems to be a solution in search of a problem – but that’s one of the exciting things about cutting-edge tech: occasionally, you have no idea where the opportunities lie, and you have to plod through a Kickstarter campaign to figure it out.

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