It's no Klingon or Romulan device, and it doesn't look a thing
like Harry Potter's cloak. But this odd-looking garment does promise to
render the wearer invisible, at least electronically.
Meet the CHBL Jammer Coat, whose manufacturer claims can keep online services like Google from finding the wearer.
"The piece is made of metallized fabrics, which are blocking radio
waves and shielding the wearer against tracking devices. You are no
longer reachable on your mobile phone and no information from your
credit card can be captured," it said.
It added
the "Wave Circle" pattern of the fabric "gives an illusion of strange
multiple body parts, which hides and frees the individual physicality."
A separate report on tech site Mashable
said Coop-Himmelblau, an Austrian architecture firm, designed the
clothing to jam the wearer's phone, "effectively rendering him
invisible."
"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," it added.
Mashable noted the coat's lumpy pattern "acts as a disguise for would-be phone hackers and thieves." — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News
source: gmanetwork.com
