If you always wanted Harry Potter's invisibility cloak but wished it was a bit comfier, your wish may have come true.
Austrian
architecture firm Coop-Himmelblau has designed a Snuggie-like piece of
clothing that jams the wearer's phone, effectively rendering him
invisible. The Jammer Coat shields the phone from wireless signals, so
the device becomes undetectable to things like search engines or
tracking software, and there's no way for anyone to pull credit card
information.
The
code is basically a Faraday cage, with metals embedded in the fabric
that reflect incoming radio waves, protecting the wearer from
unwittingly sharing any information on any device beneath it.
Apparently,
one of the cloak's most useful features is its lumpy pattern, which
acts as a disguise for would-be phone hackers and thieves.
"The
Wave Circle pattern of the fabric gives an illusion of strange multiple
body parts, which hides and frees the individual physicality," the
product's website states.
Whether
or not anyone ever buys the Jammer Coat, it's certainly another symptom
of the ongoing privacy-vs-surveillance debate, exemplified by people
who want to be "forgotten" by Google and similar web trackers, and the
increasing presence of drones and other surveillance technology.
Posted by : Gizmeon
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