{"id":95637,"date":"2015-08-13T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T08:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=95637"},"modified":"2015-08-13T11:13:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T09:13:28","slug":"underpants-to-protect-your-package-from-harmful-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/95637\/underpants-to-protect-your-package-from-harmful-wi-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"Underpants to protect your package from harmful Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wirelessarmour.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wireless Armour<\/strong><\/a> has created a new line of men\u2019s underwear aimed at protecting male fertility against harmful electromagnetic radiation.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study found that four hours of exposure to a laptop with Wi-Fi on kills 25% of sperm in an exposed sample.<\/p>\n<p>Wireless Armour\u2019s underwear provides Wi-Fi shielding to protect against 99% of radiation emitted by Wi-Fi devices, including smartphones and laptops.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by British scientist Joseph Perkins, Wireless Armour uses RadiaTex fabric, which features a mesh of pure silver woven into the fabric.<\/p>\n<p>This silver mesh creates a\u00a0shield against electromagnetic radiation as silver is a\u00a0conductor of electricity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis silver cotton blend makes RadiaTex an extremely flexible and soft but strong fabric. The silver fibres are anti-microbial, which means they increase hygiene by preventing the spread of bacteria and other microbes,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>The briefs are sold for between \u00a324 (R480) and \u00a335 (R699).<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on wearable tech<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/91132\/the-dark-side-of-wearable-technology\/\">The dark side of wearable technology<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/82531\/high-tech-robo-pants-are-the-future\/\">High-tech robo-pants are the future<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wireless Armour has created a new line of men\u2019s underwear aimed at protecting male fertility against harmful electromagnetic radiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":95643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[25,10291],"class_list":["post-95637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-wireless-armour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95645,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95637\/revisions\/95645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}