190 years ago, in front of a packed out theatre at the Royal Institution in Mayfair, Michael Faraday lined a large wooden box with metal foil, hit it with discharges from high voltage electrical machines… then calmly stepped inside. Sparks crackled across the outside of the enclosure. Blue light crawled over the metal skin. Faraday meanwhile stood there in silence. Like the final boss. While the energy simply flowed around him.The impact of Faraday’s experiment quickly escaped the lecture hall – because the Faraday cage didn’t just deflect static charge, but whole regions of the radio frequency and microwave spectrum. The principle was applied in bunkers, test chambers and secure rooms. Then in spacecraft, data centres, radar installations and intelligence facilities, where even a stray spike of interference can crash systems or corrupt data.Today our Faraday Cage Jacket is a descendant not only of that wooden box, but everything that followed in its footsteps. It’s the same physics. Just shrunk. Softened. And wearable. We designed it from scratch, using the principles of clothing and electromagnetic infrastructure at the same time. And this is what transforms it from a pure physics experiment, to an object that looks like it’s just emerged from a craft in Dune.Large, faceted spaceship-style panels and snap-down flaps block electromagnetic waves across the 0.2–14GHz range. This includes all the unseen wiring of the digital age: WiFi at 2.4GHz and 5GHz. Bluetooth at around 2.4GHz. Mobile networks. As well as higher-frequency Ku-band satellite and radar systems. In lab testing the material reaches shielding effectiveness figures of up to 92 dB – which is the kind of level normally associated with secure infrastructure and electromagnetic test laboratories.
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