and clinicians to alleviate the patients' condition."The EZ Board is a sturdy, lightweight picture and word board that allows weak, ventilated patients to express wants, convey needs, and indicate the type, degree, and location of their pain and other concerns. Through the Vidatak EZ Board, intubated patients can reduce their frustration while increasing their satisfaction with the medical attention they receive. [The EZ Board] has currently become the standard in health-care for those intubated at thousands of hospitals in the U.S., including Sinai Health, Atrium Health, New York-Presbyterian, Penn Health, St. Jude's, VA Health System, Children's Health, UPMC, Kaiser, UCLA, Johns Hopkins Health System, and many more." – einpresswire.com In May 2014, the Los Angeles Times did a front cover story on Masvidal's coming out as a homosexual along with fellow Cynic member Sean Reinert. For gay pride month June 2017, Masvidal talked to Billboard about his experiences as a gay man in the rock and metal community:"We were always outsiders as a metal band, not only sonically with our influences coming at it from a totally different direction, but we never wore the masculine badge as being tough guys or any of that. We oftentimes wore very colorful clothes, so we were just a little more eccentric and kind of outside the box..." In an interview for Tricycle magazine, Masvidal elaborated on the origins of Cynic's name, Buddhism and his creative process. Masvidal has been a vegetarian since 1989. Masvidal began work with his brother, Maheshananda, an established and influential teacher of Yoga and Ayurveda in 2018, offering Ayurvedic and CBD-based products with company More Life Market. Masvidal has most recently entered into the creation of physical objects, developing Orgonite related devices and sacred geometric amulets. His interest in Cosmology, Consciousness, Extra-terrestrials, UFOs, crop circles and their connection to his spiritual interests have become integral to his work as an artist. Gear Masvidal uses several Steinberger guitars. One model, a hand-painted swirl finish GM4T, was used by him in his early session work with metal bands. He has also used a black GM4T and a ZT3 while touring in support of Cynic's 2008 album Traced in Air. Masvidal lent his name to a line of signature instruments aptly named, Masvidalien Cosmo produced by Sweden's Strandberg Guitars and has been playing his signature Strandbergs publicly since 2013. He had his recording debut with this new Strandberg guitar on Cynic's 2014