It looked like the opening scene of a Black Mirror episode last night. Hundreds of people, mostly dressed in black, turned up to a raw concrete building in London to see a Sonic Jacket fire frequencies through a human being just to see what happened… and the human was me.
It's fun being the guinea pig in your own science projects. And at the launch party of our Spaceshop, that experiment involved having two men in white gloves help me put on the world's first Sonic Jacket before firing frequencies through my body to see what happened. In front of hundreds of assembled guests – most with their phones ready to record my happiness or pain – I became the fourth human to wear one of the wildest pieces of clothing ever made. Luckily the men in white gloves were the guys who we made it with – and it's the same team Hollywood turns to when they need objects from the future that work today – from Stormtrooper suits and Matt Damon's spacesuit for The Martian, to the outfits in Dune. And equally luckily, some mostly pleasant frequencies had been selected for me – ones that felt like sunshine rather than torture.