Where’s Gary Larson when you need him?
You may recall a “Far Side” cartoon titled “Ways Nature says ‘do not touch'” that featured a puffer fish, a coiled snake, one other animal that I don’t recall and a man standing on a streetcorner wearing a boot on his head, a rubber ducky inner tube around his waist and a trench coat, carrying a bazooka.
I would hasten to add to that list anyone wearing this jacket, as it seems to bring Larson’s cartoon to life:
[W]hen the fur-striped coat is charged, its hair begins to stand on end; when an aggressor comes into its electrostatic field, they’ll feel their hair start to stand on end too, kind of like a Van de Graaff generator; closer still, and the fur will begin to crackle with electricity; touch the fur, and you get 100,000 volts.
Brilliant!
Source: Engadget.
