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Building a Better Tin Foil Hat

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the finally-people-will-stop-staring-at-me dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Now you can wear a Tin Foil Hat and not be subject to ridicule or discomfort." From the article: "This hat -- made from cotten fiber, silver and copper -- will help reduce your brain's exposure to EMF. LessEMF also sells shirts and cell phone covers to accomplish the same thing."

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  1. Hey Karma, Lookin for a Date? by thatshortkid · · Score: 3, Informative

    Rather than link to gizmodo's blog, manufacturer's link.

    $64 for tin foil boxers. now that's an investment!

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  2. These hats may actually amplify signals! by jbarr · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to this article from MIT, aluminum foil hats may actually amplify some signals...notably, amplification at 2.6 Ghz and a 20 db amplification at 1.2 Ghz.

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  3. Cover for cell phones _increases_ radiation! by Jump · · Score: 2, Informative
    Didn't they take any basic physics class? Putting your mobile inside a radiation shielding cover, will:
    • Make it harder if not impossible to receive phone calls.
    • Increase the radiation power of the mobile even outside the cover, because the power is adjusted to environmental conditions!!!
    • Increase battery consumption.
    • Make you look like an idiot (like those people with magnetic shoes and similar crap).

  4. The horror! by Frozen+Void · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinfoil_hat
    The effectiveness of the tin-foil hat as an electromagnetic shield for stopping radio waves is greatly reduced by the fact that it is not a complete enclosure. Placing an AM radio under a metal bucket without a conductive layer underneath demonstrates the relative ineffectiveness of such a setup. Indeed, because the effect of an ungrounded Faraday cage is to partially reflect the incident radiation, a radio wave that is incident on the inner surface of the hat (i.e., coming from underneath the hat-wearer) would be reflected and partially 'focused' towards the user's brain. While tin-foil hats may have originated in some understanding of the Faraday cage effect, the use of such a hat to attenuate radio waves belongs properly to the realm of pseudoscience.

  5. Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie by Mike+deVice · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm a little bit surprised that nobody has linked to this site yet. ;) It's been a fav of mine for many years.

    Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
    An Effective, Low-Cost Solution To Combating Mind-Control

  6. Re:Its NOT tinfoil by ChrisMaple · · Score: 1, Informative

    Aluminum is a poor choice. The surface oxidizes quickly, and aluminum oxide is not conductive. Tin oxide is conductive.

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