Described as a "fancy Faraday cage" – a mesh-wrapped electromagnetic-proof shield – Block is an aluminium case that can store up to seven smartphones, blocking all their connections.. The ...

I've had some fairly practical experience with the Faraday cage concept. In 1992, I was working for a defense contractor on a networking project for a military customer, and we were trying to ...

Nissan has designed what’s known as a ‘Faraday cage’ inside the driver’s arm rest, a metal mesh that stops bluetooth, cellular and wifi signals from getting in.

While that makes the Faraday cage seem a little redundant, in truth many phones don’t feature NFC—which just means that your handset would run out of battery as it fruitlessly searches for signal.

A cocktail bar owner has installed a Faraday cage in his walls to prevent mobile phone signals entering the building. Steve Tyler of the Gin Tub, in Hove, East Sussex, is hoping customers will be ...

He doesn’t believe a Faraday cage would protect a phone any better than turning it off or putting it into airplane mode, but says the cage’s advantage is that it’s harder to forget or screw up.

Mr Tyler claimed use of the cage was permitted under the 2006 Wireless Telegraphy Act, external, unlike phone mobile jammers, which transmit their own signal to prevent a handset accessing its ...

The improvised Faraday cage in this Fair Work case, the humble chip packet, worked because it was metallic. "The main point is just that it is foil," Dr Dooley said.