Tin foil hats are sooo last century.

And raise you Bacofoil + Anaglypta + Wallpaper paste.

Mine's the one with the blown-vinyl finish and the suspiciously shiny lining.

My house has been painted with RF blocking paint for years. My Wireless LAN is a joke.

don't go as high as 182GHz, do they? By my (admittedly quick) calcs that puts this paint as an X-Ray / Gamma Ray blocking paint. Even if I'm out by a factor of 100 that's still just about down to the UV bit of the EM spectrum. Even the lowly 2.4GHz is down as a microwave rather than a proper "Radio" wave.

Gamma ray blocking paint could be really useful for the military and in industry where they handle nookelar materials- alpha and beta aren't a problem to stop, but Gamma has- up until now- been a pain to stop.

Yup Lead based paints FTW

I can't imagine the millitary using a wireless technology to exchange data, where both parties have to be a meter or so away and any physical barrier at all can cause problems.

Cables or physical transferal of data would be much safer, and probibly quicker too.

And even if they did - for example it became super-trendy to have your monitor and your PC talking to each other on 100Ghz - the bandwidth avalible would be huge, and massive amounts of encryption would be easy to impliment, even if it was rather pointless.

Now, a wireless technology that allows me to stream high quality media from my iPhone to my wireless headphones / headscreen might be useful - but it won't be paint that prevents it from working. It would be DRM and crippled protocols. Cheers Jobs.

Science. Because you can never have too much.

If 10GHz is 3cm wavelength, then 200 GHz is 0.15 cm, or 1500 microns, or 1,500,000 nanometers.

Visible light is 800 nm (red) to about 350 nm (edge of UV). IR is from 800 nm to about 5000 nm or 5 microns. So 182 GHz is nowhere near any kind of "light".

Being apparently made out of thermite, there's a good chance it'll burn up nicely.

Oh dear. X-rays are between about 10^17 to 10^18 Hz.. So you were out by around 10000000 rather than 100. UV is around 10^16 Hz with visible light at about 10^15 Hz.

At present around 180 GHz is used for imaging. The paint would be useful for rendering surfaces non-reflective.

Isn't that the recipe for thermite... from Wikipedia "Thermite is a pyrotechnic composition of a metal powder [aluminum] and a metal oxide, which produces an aluminothermic reaction known as a thermite reaction. It is not explosive, but can create short bursts of extremely high temperatures focused on a very small area for a short period of time."

Who in their right mind would paint that on their walls?

I wish.....

Mine's the one with the jammer in the pocket.

Mine're the trousers with the thermite lined codpiece ....

no subsitute for a tinfoil hat, stops the cia hearing my thoughts

Anyone see the horrific references to the horror film Pulse? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454919/

I was going to say that most BT exchanges I go into need a re-paint but with the fire risk of this product, I'll put you with the "Pale-Straw" & blue & grey, on the kit.