These French-made boxer briefs have fibers that create an electromagnetic shield to keep men's gentles safe from radiation. Here's @benpopper's take from CES:
@jarnix@rrhoover@benpopper Lmao - thanks Product Hunt for keeping my junk radiation clean. I'm going to wear these next time I fly so TSA stops *ahem* admiring. :D
@rrhoover@benpopper why do u need to protect your gentles from radiation more than yourself? ;)
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By the time science proves or disproves the danger of low level radiation, most of us will have had decades of constant exposure. This "take small steps to protect yourself (and your privates) should the establishment opinion be wrong" idea seems reasonable but slippery slopesque. See also, spendy!
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@kkdub Agreed. It's interesting to think about how risk perception affects product attractiveness more broadly. Is this truly a "job-to-be-done" or a manufactured anxiety creating an unnecessary job? How successful can a product be if it's inventing the JTBD vs responding to a long-standing JTBD?
Will I get a free tinfoil hat and some Arnica D40 homeopathic chakra aligning remedies with my order of woo woo protection from "cellphone and WiFi" radiation? Or at least a copy of *one* peer reviewed, evidence based, study that shows *any* veracity to those claims of protection or the claimed harm from "cellphone and WiFi radiation" to my privates?
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I had soo many talks about this issue, but it could seriously be a standard if medical studies finally start to prove the consequences of mobile phones and other radiations
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@matthieudeluze "finally start to prove" is an odd statement. it kinda implies that it hasn't been proven yet, which means all these talks you've been hearing aren't backed by any science. just saying.
i remember headlines from a few years ago that if you use a cell phone to make calls for more than 1 hour a day, your chance of having a brain tumor is increased by 40%. this of course had people going crazy and throwing away their phones. the numbers were real, but also misleading. the study found that 5 in 100,000 people who don't use cell phones have a brain tumor. on the other hand those you used a cell phone a lot had a chance of 7 in 100,000. that's 40% more. the study also found that if you use your phone just a little bit your chance is 4 in 100,000. the absolute number of true positives was simply too small to make any accurate claims.
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@gopietz Well obviously living close to any radiation cannot be any healthy but I didn't read or heard of a medical study about the precise consequences of living in an environment filled with mobile phones & wifi radiations yet.
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@matthieudeluze@gopietz No, there's nothing obvious about that. You could even live next door to a nuclear power plant and be just fine.
"Radiation" encompasses a lot of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, including visible light. Some short wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation have high energy, I'm talking X-rays / gamma rays, and are known to damage cellular material like DNA because they interact with the molecules by moving electrons around. This kind of radiation is called "ionizing radiation" and that's what one should be concerned about (and this underwear will do nothing for this form of dangerous radiation).
The wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation used for WiFi, Bluetooth, microwaves etc and the ranges "covered" by this product are on the scale of meters, whereas the wavelengths of ionizing radiation is picometers/nanometers or 10^-12 meters / 10^-9 meters. That's trillionths or billionths of a meter. In fact, the only reason a product like this can shield anything is because the wavelengths of the electromagnetic waves it shields you from are so large.
There have been plenty of studies examining the effects of these wavelengths on humans and biological models. Just because you haven't heard of them doesn't mean they haven't happened. The media also frequently spreads misinformation on this subject, and there are even studies like the one Pietz mentioned above that use statistics or sketchy methods to show correlations that don't really mean anything.
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@shimmb@gopietz I never meant that nothing have been done, only that I didn't read anything yet so, many thanks for your insights here 👌
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Very interesting underwear. But i have some questions, will this underwear for general use.
Design will be the same, or there will be different styles like on this site https://bunchofanimals.com
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