Often known for his street installations ambushing downtown Manhattan, Brooklyn-based artist RAE BK, aka RAE, took on a new ...

Most Hackaday readers are no doubt familiar with the Faraday cage, at least in name, and nearly everyone owns one: if you’ve ever stood watching a bag of popcorn slowly revolve inside of a microwave, ...

Say you wanted to protect your Wi-Fi network from surrounding buildings. The most obvious way to do this would be to secure the devices on your network using the wireless security protocol of choice.

Companies are duping people into buying fake Faraday cages they say will block harmful radiation and 5G, but keep home WiFi signal intact. A real Faraday cage, however, would block all electromagnetic ...

A Faraday cage is a protective enclosure that prevents certain types of electromagnetic radiation from entering or exiting, according to the Florida State University Magnetic Field Laboratory. First ...

Photos: “Faraday Cage” art exhibition, located at 1049 Samsonville Road in Kerhonkson, N.Y., as seen on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025. The “Kitchen Out of Reach” room of artist RAE BK’s “Faraday Cage” art ...

In the predawn darkness, you can see an eerie red glow shining from the windows of the Hudson, Wis., home of Thaddeus Owen and his fiancée, Heidi Sime. The couple are awake, having slept in their ...

You don’t have to buy into 5G conspiracy theories to think that you could do with a little less radiation in your life. One way of blocking radiation is a Faraday cage, but this is usually a metal ...

I wrapped my router in foil; download dropped ~50% and ping rose ~67%, so the signal was partially blocked. Upload barely changed; upload speed seemed ISP-limited, not much affected by the foil. My ...

A shielded enclosure used to block electromagnetic fields from reaching its interior. However, a compass does work inside a Faraday cage because the cage does not block the earth's magnetic field.