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Feedback: Stealth or style? Now you don't have to choose

6 January 2016

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Stealth with style

TIN foil hats may have a popular following, but they have struggled to overcome their sartorial inelegance. Kathleen James points us towards a brand that may change that: Shield, which boasts that it has created “the world’s first signal-proof headwear”.

The founders of Shield, which has raised over £8000 on Kickstarter, claim that their silver-laced cotton beanies and baseball caps will “reliably reflect signals from cell phones, wi-fi routers, microwaves and it generally blocks all waves transmitted from electric devices”. The…

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