Funny-Looking Coat Turns Away Spying Electronic Eyes

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Funny-Looking Coat Turns Away Spying Electronic Eyes
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If you always wanted Harry Potter (http://mashable.com/category/harry-potter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)'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 (http://mashable.com/category/snuggie/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)-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 ** way for anyone to pull credit card information.

See also: 10 Weird Gadgets That Never Took Off (http://mashable.com/2012/11/12/weird-gadgets/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


The code is basically a Faraday cage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/20/jammer-coat/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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