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Building a Better Tin Foil Hat
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."
Didn't they know that it's been proven that tinfoil hats simply don't work?
Show this to your friends and family that don't know what a real hacker is
They are selling something called a 'Schumann resonator'. Schumann resonance is an extremely low frequency (2-20Hz) standing wave pattern observable in the ionosphere. What is amazing about these waves is that they are key to our survival. Much like how oxygen is required to breathe, Schumann resonance is required for life (or at least inasmuch as something like Vitamin D is required). We evolved with these resonances, so we are evolutionarily attuned to them, whether we know it or not.
Modern society bombards us with very high frequency electromagnetic waves that drown out the natural environmental electromagnetic waves that we are evolutionarily accustommed to. Therefore, our health at times will suffer due to a lack of these natural ELF electromagnetic signals.
To counter that, it is possible to buy a Shumann resonator which plugs into a wall socket and broadcasts in the Schumann frequency range. It helps by balancing out the daily hazardous bombardment of modern EM fields with healthy and wholesome natural ELF fields. You can experience better health and more vigor just by having these near you (and turned on!) for several hours each day.
I can believe that someone would be duped by that kind of logical pseudoscience. It all sounds credible to someone prone to neophobia.
Covering your cell phone is definitely important. If it were exposed to RF, it could accidentally function.
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.