Vollebak, a British company, creates, manufactures, and sells the futuristic, sports-style suits. The silver fabric used to make the garments blocks electromagnetic and infrared radiation and is antimicrobial, fighting bacteria. It’s the same protective material NASA used on the Curiosity rover.
The Shielding Suit has pockets for mobile phones that prevent tracking whether the phone is on or off.
“We designed the jacket to be comfortable to wear anywhere—like a regular lightweight jacket. The only difference is you’ll look like you just stepped off a spaceship,” the company said.
Previously, the company’s technologists created equally eccentric pieces—like a lava-resistant jacket for the apocalypse and a cocoon suit for travel. The company’s inventors are currently working on a Harry Potter–style invisibility cloak.
What else did the makers say about the untraceable suit?
To create the suit, Vollebak collaborated with the German lab Shieldex, which develops high-tech metallic fabrics for digital forensics, medical textiles, and aerospace.
On its website, the company wrote: “Long before the Curiosity rover was sent to Mars to search for signs of life, it needed to be tested here on Earth. NASA created an electromagnetic shielding tent to completely block external electromagnetic radiation during those tests. We have now used that technology to develop our first protective suit.”
Its outer shell is coated with pure silver, which blocks radio waves and microwaves from 0.2 to 10 GHz. This range covers Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, Ku‑band satellite communications, and radar systems that use radio waves to locate objects.
The suit also reflects mid- and long-wave infrared radiation, so infrared cameras can’t see it in the dark, the Daily Mail reported.
The company says the Shielding Suit’s phone pockets function like a Faraday cage—a closed enclosure that neutralizes electromagnetic fields. The device is named after English physicist Michael Faraday, who developed the concept in 1836. Faraday cages are used in data centers, labs, and hospitals.
“Silver is both electrically conductive and antimicrobial, which means it can reflect certain types of electromagnetic energy while simultaneously killing bacteria,” the company noted. The antibacterial properties of silver help combat diseases.
However, this suit is not cheap: the jacket costs £2,495, and the trousers are £1,495. So the total price for the entire set is £3,990.
