February 13, 2008
Knitted Shields (or Cosies for Electronic Objects)
This is the story of an electro sensitives’ obsession with knitting cosies for electronic objects. This obsession was passed on by Zoe Papadopoulou grandmother who discovered that by knitting cosies with wool and wire she could stop her domestic appliances from emitting electromagnetic radiation.
Zoe Papdopoulou took on her Grandmother's hobby and weaving a thin thread of copper in the wool and grounding it, she ensures that the electromagnetic fields are blocked on all home appliances; her cell phone, toaster, radio, coffeepot, microwave, even her satellite dish.
View images of the cosied household products on we-make-money-not-art.com. The cellphone cozy appears in a video interview of the designer.
According to the designer, the shields work better on some objects than on others. The microwave and radio cozies for example block the waves very well. It seems to depend on the density of the knits and the thickness of the copper wire."
[via we-make-money-not-art.com]
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