Japanese company to sell Swine Flu-resistant suit -- because nobody wants their clothes to get sick
By Laura June 
posted October 8th 2009 10:51AM
posted October 8th 2009 10:51AM
Japan's been particularly hard hit with this H1N1 influenza marching around the globe, so maybe it shouldn't be surprising that one of its companies has come up with an "anti-flu" suit... but it still is. Japanese clothier Haruyama Trading Company has developed and is now selling a men's suit which will supposedly ward off the H1N1 virus -- not the first time we've seen this idea. The suit, which looks exactly like any other, is coated in titanium dioxide (a popular ingredient found in sunscreen and toothpaste) which reacts when exposed to sunlight and kills the virus. Nobody's really checked into whether or not these things actually work, of course, but hey -- that's part of the fun, right? If you live in Japan, you can grab one for somewhere in the neighborhood of $580. [Via Cnet]
I have H1N1 resistant boxers.
THIS article was on Giz yesterday...
I... really don't know... how to take that...
Couldn't one just spray Lysol on one's clothes and get the same effect?
It's a vegetarian suit.
LOL
bacon scented
FYI... The suit causes cancer.
your epidermis causes cancer
Your face causes cancer
Using shampoo causes cancer. It's true because 100% of people who use it die.
In Soviet Russia, cancer causes YOU!
Wow. You crammed a lot of idiotic statements into that one post.
the title made me laugh.. thanks laura, you aight!
+1
China issues a mass vaccination campaign, and some Japanese company makes a flu resistant suit instead...
Yet, neither is surprising. :\ .
FUD Suit - now for only $580!
They also recommend applying SPF 50 or higher to your skin before clothing yourself in this costume...
i wonder if it comes with a full-face helmet complete with biofilters.....
@ Quantumphysicsits...
Its not that i agree or disagree with what you are saying but I was just wondering how long you have been waiting for Japan to create a Swine Flu-resistant suit to pull out those statements? I mean, given that this is a gadget site and all...
They need to sell some matching gloves and fedora too! Gotta accessorize.
Wow dude, I'm glad to hear you've got some trollin' skillz.
You've managed to bring politics into a non-political article.
Why do many far left members have to be elitists? I mean, can't we have differing opinions without spewing hatred towards one another? Do you really think you are better than your other fellow Americans just because they don't agree with you?
Just because I disagree with you and Obama doesn't mean that I think you are both scumbags.
Looks like he's going to the prom. While all the other kids are looking to get lucky, he doesn't have to rely on luck. He has titanium dioxide.
i dont get it. so if its coated in a "paste" it loses its super virus force field after one wash?
perhaps just make a fabric softener with the same stuff, slap the H1N1 anti label on it and bam! moneys.
Does it come with a matching hat and facemask? OH a cane! That would just finish the look right there.
Not that I want to stoop to your level, but for anyone who may have actually *read* the crap you posted, let me be the first to correct it.
First of all, it takes a special level of moron to actually believe anything you said. I don't agree with the President, but I don't believe for a second that Obama is trying to throw me into a FEMA camp -- where would he come up with the money? I'm sure "Son of Stimulus" would go over like a lead balloon...
Second, I haven't had the H1N1 vaccine (technically none of us have yet, since it's not out for general distribution nationwide yet), and me and my kids got H1N1, we were sick for a week, and we're better. It's a flu. Quit your bitchin'.
Now back to the original post (or, finally returning to topic), how does making a suit that kills the virus even remotely useful? The virus is transmitted through the air into your mouth, eyes, or nose, or by your contact of the virus and then transferring it to your mouth, eyes, or nose. So all the vulnerable virus entry methods and points (hands, mouth, eyes, and nose) are still completely unprotected after your $580 purchase.
Fail.
I guess I will have to wear TiO2 coated facemasks!
THIS JUST IN: Japan has just compreted the first radder to heavren...
Today weava in heaven, partry croudy....
There's a local company that has the same thing, but in kids cloths. Doesn't cost anywhere near as much. I wish I could remember the name of the company.
if i remember correctly certain virus types can survive on surfaces for up to 48 hours. it is true that you get the virus from contact to your mouth, eyes, nose, etc. but i believe you can get it from indirect contact; ie transfer from surfaces. if you live in a metropolis and get on a subway train i can only guess how much stuff is on the surfaces. i've seen people sneeze then or wipe their nose then grab one of the handles on the train. and i've seen someone barf right on the door railings of the train car... ugh. i'm not sure how long the H1N1 would survive on your clothes, if you are trying to avoid it, i guess this suit "might" help. i dunno, its a flu~ i wouldn't buy a suit... but i'd probably be careful what i touched. hard to do an interview when you are sick...
Wouldn't it just be easier to brush your teeth and swab your nostrils with sunscreen?
Does the surgery to remove your hands, feet, and head and then sew up the holes cost extra?
That man looks so sharp, he could cut glass.
sunscreen kills h1n1? sunsreen's h1n1icidal properties are activated by sunlight?
i'd buy it if it had an h1n1 detector that sounded an alarm and a voice recording.
Useless. The most common method of contracting a virus is through your hands. The chances fo your hands meeting a H1N1-coated surface, then touching your "protective" suit prior to touching your mouth or nose is slim-to-none. Besides, titanium-dioxide is not something you want to be exposed to for long periods of time.
@ Quantumphysicsits:
Actually, it recently came out that the H1N1 vaccine has a higher than 50% incidence of infecting the recipient with swine flu. Oops. and given the additional irony that, as CJ noted above, H1N1 is no more virulent or dangerous than regular old flu, some folks are going vaccinated and contracting this flu when they probably wouldn't have gotten inoculated if they knew how relatively benign swine flu actually is.
The swine (not-quite-pun intended) over at Fox News are, therefore, actually doing the sheeple that follow them an unintended service by steering them away from this vaccine.
This is a good idea. Time to rub toothpaste all over my suits.
This will be a hit in Japan, because a lot of Japs are neat freaks, specially with there ridiculous surgeon masks. So who ever made this up will be loaded for sure. :D
Just sell TiO2 spray cans instead of suits if ppl really wanted to armour your clothes.
Now there's a good looking young man, I usualy don't like men in suits, but this one looks FINE !!!!
A Lone Ranger costume for halloween will be perfect! It includes gloves and a mask....
It is nothing, but a gimmick. There is no such thing as a swine flu resistant suit. These clothes will not kill off the virus. I don't understand why all of these silly craps get published! This is just pure nonsense. People don't get immunity from these clothes. Only common sense will grant you the needed protection from the virus itself.