Particularly on the back of the recent iCloud account hacking scandal, smartphone security is something a lot of people are paying more attention to.
With that in mind, a London-based designer recently launched an intriguing Kickstarter campaign, to create a clothing label aimed at raising awareness about high-tech security.
The clothes are all cleverly constructed around a removable waterproof stealth pocket, made from police-grade shielding fabrics, designed to securely block all Cell, WiFi, GPS and RFID signals to ~100 dB.
The clothing will include party chinos, an outer party jacket and inner party blazer — inspired by the workmen uniform feature in George Orwell’s famously dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
“We’re calling [our stealth pocket] the UnPocket in homage to Orwell because it works much like Winston Smith in the bowels of Minitrue,” says project creator Zoltan Csaki. “Simply pop your phone, passport and bank cards inside and become invisible to Big Brother within seconds.”
A video for the project can be seen below:
Csaki isn’t the first person working in tech to invoke the imagery of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Apple famously used the book as the jumping-off point for its famous 1984 advertising campaign for the original Macintosh.
More recently, during last tuesday’s iPhone 6 and Apple Watch keynote, Tim Cook took a swipe at Google by saying that, ““We are not in the business of collecting your data.”
