Building a Better Tin Foil Hat 68
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."
They don't work (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:They don't work (Score:5, Funny)
Don't succumb. Keep wearing it.
Re:They don't work (Score:1)
http://www.abandonedstuff.com/petfoilhat.html [abandonedstuff.com]
See the news section.
Not their fault! (Score:1)
The governement was influencing the study through RF based mind control. They made them see results that were contrary to reality.
Re:They don't work (Score:2)
Re:They don't work (Score:2)
While I certainly don't claim to be an expert on such matters, even I can point out the obvious flaw in the study -- it's focus on radio waves. I only ever knew one character who wore foil hats, and he didn't even bother with them inside because they were made to defend against the "Orbital Mind Control Lasers" (OMCL) mounted on satellites. They aren't supposed to be providing an (obviously non-functional) Faraday cage around the head -- they're supposed to be blocking the "lasers" via their optical prope
Re:They don't work (Score:1)
The point is, trust no one!
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The horror! (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:The horror! (Score:1)
Why not ask the Mythbusters [discovery.com]?
Tinfoilhattery(tm) (Score:1)
Are you claiming "Mind Control Rays"
are supernatural (i.e. Non electromagnetic) or Microwave radiation?
Well,As for usual EM radiation it can be used as crude mind control by transmitting it to a special device called TV and making the people watch the screen of device.
imagine that,turns out most people never suspected it and never stop watching merely switching the channels at which Mind Control Radiation (tm) is transmitted.
The Cartoon Network is particuraly effective at
Re:The horror! (Score:1)
What, are the mind-control rays being sent from subterranean agents?
Really, though, if you want to prevent government mind-control by radio waves - turn off Fox News. And stop the administrtion from buying journalists.
Re:The horror! (Score:1)
Why you assume i have the time to write paragraphs to post on slashdot?
Re:They don't work (Score:2)
Chav Question... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Chav Question... (Score:1)
Re:Chav Question... (Score:1)
Re:Chav Question... (Score:2)
And more dead chavs is a problem how?
Re:Chav Question... (Score:2)
http://www.burberry.com/AboutBurberry/History.asp
"Soon the red camel, black and white check became synonymous with Burberry"
Re:fp! (Score:1)
Re:Its NOT tinfoil (Score:1)
Re:Its NOT tinfoil (Score:2, Informative)
Hey Karma, Lookin for a Date? (Score:3, Informative)
$64 for tin foil boxers. now that's an investment!
Schumann resonator (Score:4, Funny)
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.
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Re:Schumann resonator (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Schumann resonator (Score:2)
They're pretty effective at keeping most things away if you bought the sharp, stabby kind
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Someone's selling these things for real (Score:2)
These hats may actually amplify signals! (Score:3, Informative)
-Jim
Gmail Tips [gmailtips.com]
Jim's Tips [jimstips.com]
Re:These hats may actually amplify signals! (Score:2)
it's a silver/copper grid.
(This could actually work, but it's still paranoid)
A cell phone cover would be useful.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A cell phone cover would be useful.... (Score:2)
Now, if your phone-sock is completely symmetrical, this'll mean your personal RF exposure is essentially unchanged, because the phone will adjust until the tower reports an adequate signal:noise r
Cover for cell phones _increases_ radiation! (Score:2, Informative)
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie (Score:3, 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 [zapatopi.net]
An Effective, Low-Cost Solution To Combating Mind-Control
Re:Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie (Score:2)
not what I was hoping for (Score:2)
Maybe not so silly... (Score:2, Interesting)
I Want a Tinfoil ROOM (Score:2)
Re:I Want a Tinfoil ROOM (Score:2)
Re:I Want a Tinfoil ROOM (Score:1)
Solid or tiny holes? (Score:1)
tiny holes (Score:1)
You can see this in the attenuation (blockage factor) graph at the LessEMF website. As the frequency gets higher, the attenuation gets less, because the space between conductors becomes a larger fraction of the wavelength. Wavelength goes down as frequency goes up:
L (meters) = 300/F (mhz) So, 10 GHz frequency means 15 mm half-wavelength, or about 1/16 inch.
We actually bought some fabric from these guys a
Ummm... I'll stick to homemade. (Score:3, Funny)
How do I know this thing won't insert a tiny cat whisker lead into my scalp, sending my thoughts out and putting their thoughts in?
No thanks. I'll stick to homemade. It makes a nice family craft; I'm thinking of doing it as a Cub Scout activity with my son.
RFID proof wallet/passport holder (Score:2)
The new world of superconvenient RFID credit cards and Passport People Identifiers/Dissident Locators really could benefit from a wallet that gives individuals a modicum of control over what information about themselves is released to governments, corporations, etc.
Of course, the better and harder thing to do is to make governments and corporations more transparent and trustworthy, but that's a much harder thing to do.
Re:RFID proof wallet/passport holder (Score:1)
Paranoid in Style (Score:1)
No Children's Sizes! (Score:2)