I've been getting a lot of headaches lately and the problem is pretty obvious
if you think about it it's the pesky 5G rays that the government is beaming into
my brain but it's okay because I have a
plan to protect myself from all the electro smog in my house using this and
this and this no I'm just kidding you guys that would
look ridiculous so instead I've picked up a bottle of warmore rfie50 a paint
that when applied correctly claims to
Shield you from high and low frequency electromagnetic fields
how you might ask well not by teasing
the folks who believe their Wi-Fi routers causing sleepless nights and
cancerous growths it probably has more to do with the high graphite content of
this black base coat and if this actually works there are legitimate
purposes for a product like this if blocking unauthorized access to a baby
monitor or thwarting keyless car theft could be as simple as a couple coats of
paint they might not only be able to justify the existence of this product
but even its outlandish price so we
decided that regardless of our own beliefs about the supposed dangers of 5G
we owe it to the tech community and uh
Raymond EMC whose chamber we haven't really used for anything yet to find out
if this stuff is snake oil or if it actually works works like this Segway to
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this stuff can lower RF Noise by anywhere from 51 to 78 decibels
depending on the frequency with just three layers of paint now obviously we
can't just take their word for it we're gonna have to try it which for a normal
person would be a relatively easy task just turn off your Wi-Fi use a handy
dandy EMF meter like this 48846 from
xtec to take a reading of the background RF radiation in your space apply paint
all around you and then measure the difference
for us though it's not so simple because this place is quite literally radio
frequency hell we've got multiple high
performance wireless access points we've got our rooftop 60 gigahertz wireless link to the other building our cell
repeater and our wireless microphones and production gear not to mention the
hundreds of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enabled devices all of which are competing for
wireless Spectrum in this big bouncy concrete box that we call the lab allow
me to demonstrate oh man Jake geez you
got 10 you've got 10 of them right here oh my good 20. it's got a wireless
antenna right there it's going to sizzle your nipples
Adam's very busy we don't want to disrupt him
oh yeah these are very no no you're good you're good very low very low RF that's
great very safe oh no James has got
wireless headphones oh they're wired I mean that explains
why they're basically on par with the background reading then I see trouble
I can't read it from here 30 not 40 wow actually it does go up
when you get closer to the AP I mean that makes sense 55. what 55. there you
go oh okay here you go how high can we get it eight eighty-five wow dangerous
what pocket do you keep your phone in it's on the desk oh okay well pile of
readings are really low here nobody texts me anyway
this is low literally nobody's actually using these servers hey social team you
guys are using the servers right yeah excuse me sorry I just need to yeah
even farther back yeah okay all right thank you thank you acrylic side panels
beautiful or deadly yeah I think you're
gonna be okay okay all naming aside the inconsistency of our Baseline readings
is a significant problem if we're trying to figure out if the paint works even
while I'm standing here you're watching it fluctuate as much as three to five
volts per meter and moving just a foot
drops it by another three thankfully we have a solution our EMC
chamber in here we not only have extremely low background noises a very
controlled environment it's one and a half volts per meter and that's with the
camera right there it's basically zero without it but we also have the ability
to set up a completely self-contained 5G
Network which will allow us to use not Wi-Fi but harmful 5G to test out a
variety of different shielding Solutions let's start with one of the more
obviously predatory ones like this hat from EMR shielding Solutions it's 70 US
Dollars and its claim to fame is that aside from looking absolutely fabulous
it is lined with 10 copper slash silver
which gives them the difference in cost I wouldn't mind knowing which one is
which but oh well for our test we've got
our 5G Network enabled which you can actually see right here we have a 5G
compatible phone and we have a screen recording running that should allow us
to put it under the hat and see if it works
not gonna lie I played around with this a little bit before we rolled the camera
and we have a bit of an issue every time we've ever done this kind of thing in
the past we've used Wi-Fi which is a lot
easier to block than a um
cellular signal because of the different
bends and the weights uh so this doesn't do anything but I was actually expecting
it to do something pinned at 80 is that what you
were expecting basically okay cool
let's move on then next up is this 5G
blocking fabric from atmosure
do I look swindler enough right now
here's the transmitter ah hey
depending which of the marketing brochures you pick up these guys
oscillate between totally reasonable with claims like sewing their fabric
into your pockets could help block credit card skimming all the way to move
to a smaller town and rural area where 5G rollouts may not happen anytime soon
let's give it a shot 5G
now you don't it's like 10 seconds to refresh the
reading one second boom whoa whoa
all right it works be nice if you could manually refresh it
like the the phone thinks it has 5G already yeah
um it broke it I don't know how do you do it Linus you didn't even drop it I did
nothing I just I break things it's not my fault I swear to you okay so
I should try this again because maybe something bad happened I minus 83
decibels no you don't oh
I know what it is it's capacitive
dang it now for my next trick we're using a different interface because it
refreshes a little bit faster but I'm going to make this 5G signal at minus 84
decibels disappear
oh yeah look at this earlier just come in here
with it I can totally breathe
mine is 99 dang this stuff kind of does
something let's move on to our paint let's take a closer look at this boy
made in Canada very nice very breathable
with low VOC content which actually does matter when you're applying a paint they
say it contains no toxic solvents plasticizers or other toxic ingredients
it's water-based containing mostly an
acrylic binder water natural graphite and carbon black and while I said a
whole bunch of stuff about how non-toxic it is I would like to point out that none of this is actually unique in the
paint industry and I would strongly suggest that you not consume any of this
however non-toxic it might be by the way as we discovered during the creation of
our test enclosure it is even more
clothes stainy than thermal paste so make sure you are super careful when
you're using it rather than painting a room we decided to paint a box
movie Magic
painted this whole
this whole box has some small gaps in it we used foil tape to cover them and
we'll be using the same to seal our phone inside we just need to devise a
test that allows us to actually monitor what the bloody thing is doing well
here's one thing I can put it in and see if that does oh oh wow
I I actually have really high hopes for
this it's not even enclosed okay hold on hold on
93 which is worse
oh minus 105.
and it's still got a big gap
buddy
106.
okay that's not 70 or 80 decibels or
whatever but that's something it's 25
and that's on a cardboard box how about a practical demo what does this mean in
real world terms or wait do we have internet
oh perfect then I'll just go to YouTube why does everybody put 5G in their house
this is great I could actually I have no idea how much that costs
I mean while we're at it why doesn't everybody have the new stubby Screwdriver from lttstore.com I've got
an LTT video loaded up here I'm gonna go ahead and change the quality to I mean
let's go 4K right we're at 4K and I've got stats for nerds overlaid so you can
actually see right now our connection rate is about
40 megabit as measured by stats for
nerds now let's go ahead and drop it into the boom we are down to 30.
33 34 still that's quite a bit lower and
it gets better let's go ahead and start to close it
we're down to 20 under 20.
10 3.
it will almost certainly buffer very soon oh it's buffering it's buffering uh
it cannot play I don't even need to I don't even need
to seal this it cannot play the video
oh oh she's going okay well
we are not going to know for sure exactly when or how it cuts out because
I have no way of monitoring the screen Inside the Box
but we can go ahead and seal it up thanks Colin
all right
I gotta tell you um I wasn't sure exactly what to expect
today but it wasn't for it to be this good
I kind of thought this was going to be more like the Hat
can I come over here 5G blocking paint
you're trying to block 5G I mean
paint a box oh
I'm so glad we have that other box can you hand me the control box which was
totally Our intention the whole time let's pull this out of here maybe
cardboard blocks 5G okay you ready I'm
pulling it out and oh yeah she's struggling two megabit and you can
actually see that during a lot of this it's not able to transfer anything
now that we're back up here it's playing we're at four megabit and it looks like
it's gonna keep climbing because it's actually above the scale very cool
now something The Savvy among you might have realized or thought of at this
point is that if this is 5G millimeter wave
just about anything could block it it's not millimeter wave but if it were a
piece of paper could block it so let's go ahead and see is it just the fact
that our Network sucks we're at 47
megabit right now let's go ahead and drop it in oh boy we're at 54.
this is not 5G enhancing cardboard I promise you that much it doesn't seem to
be making any difference what's at 59. okay no really don't take away the wrong
conclusion here you guys but there's one major thing we haven't
addressed yet while EMR shielding Solutions Inc does claim protection
against high frequency RF microwave and
low frequency electric Fields they require you to ground it so they
actually sell a kind of foil tape that
you can run along the baseboards in the painted area then you paint over it with
this stuff which is supposed to act more like a primer or a base coat and then
you apply your regular paint over top of this so that your guests don't need to
know that you get your news from Infowars
anyway our box is grounded now
let's go ahead and try it one more time I'm not really expecting it to change
that much I suspect this is more about the blockage okay 50 megabit that's not
too bad for 4K YouTube all right
and ah there we go okay down to 40 38 37
35 she's dropping okay
15
and more effective
count to three megabit and she's buffering
it's not the most scientific test either I'm not necessarily convinced that's
making a ton of difference but sure if you were going for the most effective
covering possible then you would probably want to ground your paint but
you'd also probably want to remove your doors and your Windows so
um given that your house no matter what you do is going to be less sealed and
less grounded than this so I suspect
that if your goal was to completely block any kind of signal in or out you
are going to be sorely disappointed the good news is that nothing that we've
looked at today including me standing right next to this 5D antenna is
anywhere near Health Canada's guidelines for prolonged exposure to
electromagnetic fields and in fact according to their guidelines unless the
device is quite literally heating up your skin there is no scientifically
established long-term effect to the frequencies that are emitted by consumer
electronics and there's even more good news if your goal was not to achieve
some kind of health benefit but simply to attenuate the RF signals from any
device inside your box like a car key in
that spoofing example that we gave you guys earlier in the video then this
actually works way better than I expected and it could absolutely be part
of your toolbox though with that said If you're trying to block a signal a
toolbox might do a better job at a much lower price assuming it's made of metal
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where we bought um router
RF blocking enclosures yeah that's right
that is a thing that is actually for sale it turns out they're just paper
holders that have been reprinted and
they don't really block that much