Most Hackaday readers are no doubt familiar with the Faraday cage, at least in name, and nearly everyone owns one: if you’ve ever stood watching a bag of popcorn slowly revolve inside of a ...

When it’s time for sleep, Barnes-Lentz and her husband sleep in a Faraday cage, an enclosure made with materials that are thought to block some electromagnetic fields. Sleep is serious business ...

However, a compass does work inside a Faraday cage because the cage does not block the earth's magnetic field. Constructed of a metal mesh, current is conducted on the cage itself. It was invented ...