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# Floatables
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/floatables/
- Published: 2005-03-04T00:13:47.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-28T03:35:34.000Z
- Description: Floatable
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:21

Floatable [jellyfish-like vessels](http://haque.co.uk/floatables.php?ref=protein.xyz) that create "temporary, ephemeral zones of privacy: an absence of phone calls, emails, sounds, smells and thermal patterns left behind by others."

![](http://gallery.proteinos.com/album_pic.php?pic_id=1816)

Through various electrical systems they would be able to prevent access of GPS devices, television broadcasts, wireless networks and other microwave emissions. Finally, by creating a "blurry barrier" and a ground-plane camouflage pattern, they provide shielding from the unembarrassed gaze of security cameras and surveillance satellites. "For many people the vessels are nothing more than a rumour ..."

![](http://gallery.proteinos.com/album_pic.php?pic_id=1817)

All a bit sci-fi conspiracy theory but an interesting concept.