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Friday November 30, 2007 4:00 pm
A pouch for the paranoid: cellphone blocker

Brando is now offering the Black Hole phone bag, a pouch for your phone with two pockets. One of the pockets is ‘normal’ and just carries your phone, but the other pocket features a cell blocking material which essentially turns it into a Faraday cage. Slipping your precious mobile into this special pocket blocks all incoming and outgoing cell signals. It seems like a strange solution when simply turning off the phone offers the same functionality without the $12 price tag, but somehow we suspect that that may not be enough for the ultra-paranoid among us.
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Comments:
How absolutely true that the ultra-paranoid don’t trust the Off button. That only turns off the battery we know about.
After finding an RFID on a garment I got at Old Navy; a garment I wore for a month before noticing the “Remove before wearing” disclaimer on an innocuous-looking RFID tag, what I really want to know is: is there a Faraday cage big enough for me to wear?
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