Get your anti-radiation PANTS!

Bard · 18-09-2002 9:07am #1

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. jeans maker Levi Strauss & Co. denied Thursday it was playing on consumer fears by launching a line of trousers fitted with "anti-radiation" pockets for mobile phones.
The trousers, with a lining which the makers say shields against radiation, are designed by Dockers, a brand name of Levi Strauss -- famous for its classic "501" jeans.

Retailers were currently viewing the new line, called Icon S-Fit, with an eye to sales from next spring, a Levi's spokesman said.

"We're not implying in any way that mobile phones are dangerous," Levi's European communications manager Cedric Jungpeter told Reuters.

"Our intention is not to cash in on consumer fears but provide the consumers with what they want," he said from Levi's European headquarters in Brussels.

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Pepe LeFrits · 18-09-2002 10:15am

hahah

Panda · 18-09-2002 10:41am

I carry my mobile in my pocket pretty much al the time,
and you do have to wonder what effect its having on the baby gravy factory.

there is proof that there is certain amount of radiation emitted by phones isnt there?

methinks this should be on the after hours board...

sceptre · 18-09-2002 7:39pm

Our intention is not to cash in on consumer fears

Anyone see what they're charging for these wonderpants?

Muchos moolas

(can't remember a figure but they're 100 quid or so)

Mossy Monk · 18-09-2002 9:19pm

saw it on the news last night. can't remember what channel but they said that these new "wonderpants" (if i could borrow the name) actually reduce reception

Tom Dunne · 18-09-2002 10:00pm

Originally posted by Mossy Monk
...they said that these new "wonderpants" (if i could borrow the name) actually reduce reception

LOL. This is what I can't fathom about this type of gadget (and all the other "radiation shield" type things). They are designed to reduce the signal from the phone - to stop it frying you. Reduction in signal=reduction in reception/line quality/sound quality.

Bard · 18-09-2002 11:21pm

Originally posted by tom dunne

LOL. This is what I can't fathom about this type of gadget (and all the other "radiation shield" type things). They are designed to reduce the signal from the phone - to stop it frying you. Reduction in signal=reduction in reception/line quality/sound quality.

yeah... I just hate when I'm in my pocket on the phone and the sound quality goes all crappy...

JustHalf · 19-09-2002 9:49am

I'd be happy with anti-radiation underpants to be honest.

Mossy Monk · 19-09-2002 2:25pm

Originally posted by Bard

yeah... I just hate when I'm in my pocket on the phone and the sound quality goes all crappy...

what if you're in a dodgy reception area and the anti radiation pants blocked off all signal

po0k · 19-09-2002 2:29pm

the funny thing is, when a phone is getting a poor signal it'll up it's power output to boost the signal quality, so these pants are probably worse fo you then just having it in your ordinary, non-lead lined cryptonite pantaloons.

Puck · 19-09-2002 10:11pm

"Sorry!?....You're breakin up....! I can't hear you with these feckin pants! Hold on... I'll take them off!"

*clunk!*

"That's better."

Get your anti-radiation PANTS!

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