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Antimicrobial metal jacket made from 11km of copper wire costs $1,895vollebak.com/en-us/products/full-metal-jacket-copper-edition
208 sats \ 5 comments \ @k00b 9h hyperlinks
Hailed by WIRED as “the virus-killing coat of the future,” and winner of TIME Best Inventions, every Full Metal Jacket is built from 11 kilometres of copper.
To turn the Full Metal Jacket into high-performance, everyday gear here on Earth today, the copper strands in every jacket are measured by lasers to keep them soft and malleable. The jacket is engineered with an advanced waterproof and breathable membrane that can open and close to respond to different weather conditions. It comes with giant pockets, a fleece-lined neck… and it’s also cured for 6 days.
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50 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 8h
Can they be sued for false advertising? I can't find any evidence at all that it won TIME Best Invention, nor can I find any article in WIRED praising it as "the virus killing coat of the future".
The closest WIRED article about it is quite dubious, and I couldn't find anything on TIME
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b OP 8h
They'd win that lawsuit
It won in 2020: https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2020/5911363/full-metal-jacket/
The link at the bottom of this article points to the original Wired UK article: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/vollebaks-new-full-metal-jacket-is-the-virus-killing-coat-we-need-right-now
The link doesn't seem to work even if I use a VPN in the UK, but the url is enough to confirm the article title to me.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 8h
Huh, I wonder why my search for time.com vollebak metal jacket didn't turn up anything
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 8h
It took me a while but I found it on their wikipedia page
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @Wumbo 9h
I will stick with my Bubble, it is cheaper
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