Mint Design’s (breathtaking?) mask is made from an advanced polyester. Swine flu may yet make a monkey out of some cautious Japanese with this new nanofibre mask from Mint Designs. Made from Smash, an advanced polyester, and debuted at the Senseware exhibition in Milan, this simian slip-on offers a roomier fit than most traditional Japanese oxygen filters. The fact that wearers resemble the hero of the cult 80s supernatural martial arts serial “Monkey” might give the superstitious an extra talisman against the evils of airborne illness.