Claim: business suit protects wearer from phone radiation
A tailor is making a suit that will protect you from cellphone broadcasts. Electromagnetic sensitives rejoice: hucksters are treating your condition as an opportunity! You know you've arrived when, eh?
"Clothing company Remus has cut a gents' suit with an interwoven metal frame that’s claimed to reflect Bluetooth and mobile phone radiation, despite the jury still being undecided about the dangers such signals may or may not pose to our grey matter.However, a spokesman at one of the suit’s stockists told Register Hardware that the so-called E-Blocker suit doesn’t mean the wearer’s mobile phone reception will be hampered. He said that the suit is “purely designed to stop any potential radiation” and is suitable for “someone who’s a little sceptical about the risk of such rays”."
So, let's get this straight. Firstly, we are to accept that "phone radiation"—radio waves, in other words—is dangerous. Then we are to accept that this E-Blocker suit and its weasel-worded marketing will protect you from it, even when you're using your own cellphone. Doesn't accepting the former as a fact only make the latter proposal seem doubly ludicrous? Unless they make it like the one in the photo here, of course, from the photoset of "Mr. Rubber Bear."
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It's a Faraday suit. Basically a metal mesh around the whole body, preventing the entrance of Electro magnetic radiation - the spacing on the mesh can be 'tuned' to the particular frequency you want to block, much like the mesh on the door of your microwave. So yes, it is perfectly feasible that this can block phone radio waves from entering the suit while still letting the phone work.
As to whether the waves are dangerous in the first place... well, that's another story
So, the suit that covers your body and leaves your head exposed protects your head from radiation?
Sold! I'll take fifty. I hate it when my phone microwaves my brain. Shit stings.
Ok, I can guess from the context, but really, what the heck is a "stockist"? Is that really a word?
(Hmm... I guess it must be, the spell checker didn't flag it).