By Jasmin Malik Chua, Source: Ecouterre

Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht’s “Faraday Cage” dress is electrifying—in more ways than one. Comprising metal plates, 600 rings of chain mail, “plasma ball” epaulets, and a spiky grilled helmet, the Hellraiser-esque garment is capable of conducting close to a million volts of electricity. Wipprecht gave a demonstration of her creation at Maker Faire in May, wearing the dress herself since the models she usually works with turned her down. Standing stalwartly between a pair of Tesla coils, electricity arcing around her to the strains of In the Hall of the Mountain King by ArcAttack, Wipprecht remained safe in the confines of her homemade Faraday cage, which distributed the electrical charge around its exterior while shielding the contents within.

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