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Talking Crotches Now Protected from Deadly Cellphones

We know a lot of guys whose crotches do the thinking for them, but we've yet to see anyone pressing a cellphone up against the old 'nads for a cellphone conversation. If there are such people, here's some radiation-proof underwear that'll keep those balls protected from deadly radiation, keeping their billions and billions of delicate sperm out of harm's way. You do know that cellphones emit killer rays that fry your brain with every call, don't you? Imagine what they could do to your family jewels.

These most excellent black briefs have silver threads woven within, keeping that cellphone radiation out of your pants. Now what will Jason do when he puts that perhaps-pantsworthy iPhone down his pants next month? Voicemail will have to do, because according to the Swiss underwear maker Isabodywear, he won't get very good reception wearing a pair of these $24 bloomers.

New men's underwear protects from harmful cell phone rays [Textually]

12:50 PM on Mon May 21 2007
By Charlie White
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  • This is just fucking retarded.. no seriously, it is. It's bad enough having my phone on my belt clip. Can't cell phones lower your sperm count or something? I read this somewhere.

  • Conveniently, even if cell phones do produce spermicidal radiation, it isn't an issue for those who have chosen not to spawn.

  • did this pic get bigger too!?! damnnn! mr. brian lam do u enlarge pics a second time?

  • And yet you are still killing them in another method by crushing your nards into those tighties.

  • I think they need to talk to their marketing department or fire their marketing guy. There aren't many of us that want to see a fat bald guy in a suit hole up a pair of budgie smugglers. If I worked in this guys marketing I'd have some hot chick on her knees holding the phone like she was giving the undies a hand-job.

    But if I did work in their marketing department I'd have to give up my regular job of directing pr0n photos shoots.

  • Well, its good I have testicles that produce sperm every second of everday...its women that have to watch out. They have a set number of eggs in 'em!

    Yeah....im not to worried about losing all my sperm...i'll just make some more...lol

  • I'd be more worried about what to tell the the TSA Screener when you set off the airport metal detectors.

  • Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k at 12:58 PM on 05/21/07 *

    Stick to Aluminum Foil underpants for your crotchal area RF screening needs.

  • Image of Kaiser-Machead\'s Chips Ahoy! Kaiser-Machead's Chips... at 12:58 PM on 05/21/07 *

    I'm still waiting for the underpants that will give you a readout of your sperm count with a huge flexible triangular LED, which will then fade graphic into a gyrating smilie face. Now THAT I would definitely wear to the beach.

  • Doesn't stuff have to be *completely* enclosed in metal to protect it from EM radiation?

    @bmg50barrett: It's not the sperm per se you have to worry about, it's the sperm-making stem cells. If those get mutated all your kids will look like Cthulu.

  • So...cell phones emit radiation. Most folks hold the cell phone next to their head when they talk. These underwear block radiation. Finally a good excuse to wear underwear on one's head?

  • Oddly enough (minus the fatty and ugly underwear) I think this is a valid guy... I think we forget that we actually DO stick our phones down our pants, at least I do. In my pocket that is. Perhaps a better design, but who knows, 50 years from now (and a ball or two less) we all may be hitting ourselves over the head for not buying these things.

  • by valid guy, I mean idear

  • RF radiation has been with us for years, and I still have not seen any good sounding study suggesting that cellphone radiation causes damage to cells. RF rad from a cell phone just doesn't have enough energy to cause damage. Just another lame company making money off of people's fears.

  • my penis every time i use my cell phone:

    "i felt a great disturbance in the nads... as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced..."

  • Image of Kaiser-Machead\'s Chips Ahoy! Kaiser-Machead's Chips... at 04:25 PM on 05/21/07 *

    If Star Wars doesn't provide a clever analogy for sperm decimation, I don't know what will.

  • @Xenobiologista: Cthulu eh? Now that i wouldn't mind...

  • ya, but can i get them in a boxer brief?

  • @ Xenobiologista

    No it doesn't have to be encased to block EM.
    That is why it is called a Faraday cage, not a Faraday solid wall.
    As long as the meshwork is generally smaller gaps than the wavelength, it should block EM.

    Cages don't work for radiation (xray and the like) because their wavelength is too short. If it doesn't block light it doesn't block Xray or higher (via the Faraday approach)

  • silver wires, huh? silver is innately bactericidal, so this could presumably cut down on 'shorts' stink'. On more relevant note, I DO drive my car with my cell wedged under the ole nutsack, with the bluetooth eardongle in place. So presumably I'm potentially frying both nads AND brain (does bluetooth have frying capabilities?). Hmmmm. Thank God my DNA has programming already to deal with cancer cells - search and destroy, so to speak :^)

  • This will go great with my tin foil helmet. Damn MLB!

  • Dude, I don't know about you... But placing my phone in my crotch is like the most convenient place to store it while driving...

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