Kevin Winter/MTV VMAs 2020/Getty Images for MTVThe Black Eyed Peas‘ performance at the MTV VMAs last year has now brought us the world’s first “smart mask.”
As The New York Times reports, the CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff, was impressed with the face covering that Peas frontman will.i.am was wearing during that performance, which was a weird gas mask-type thing. When he called will to find out what it was, he told Benioff it was an idea for a high-tech mask he’d been working on since March of 2020.
Benioff then introduced will to the CEO of