This is not one of the prod­ucts of the future that I was look­ing for­ward to, but if it gets rid of that sweaty boxer feel­ing (if you live/have lived in Texas, and you’re a guy, nat­u­rally, you know what I mean) then I might give it a try.

Some com­pany called Green-shield out of Tai­wan, “a Tai­wanese nan­otech com­pany spe­cial­iz­ing in socks and under­wear designed to pro­tect you from the tra­di­tional dis­com­forts that plague these items”. Now that’s ingenuity.

The arti­cle where I read about this is basi­cally all promo-speak, but here’s some from it–

They have cre­ated arti­cles of cloth­ing that they claim can elim­i­nate up to 99.99 per­cent of bac­te­ria, 90 per­cent of odor and 75 per­cent of sticky mois­ture within the cloth as well as con­tribut­ing to the over­all health of the wearer.This is achieved through nan­otech­nol­ogy. Before the mate­r­ial is woven and sewn together to cre­ate gar­ments, Green-shield’s fibers are altered through a patented process so that they begin to release a con­stant stream of neg­a­tive ions and far-infrared rays.

The neg­a­tive ions cre­ate a mag­netic field that inhibits the repro­duc­tion of bac­te­ria, thus elim­i­nat­ing odor and low­er­ing the risk of skin infec­tion or irri­ta­tion. The neg­a­tive ions also help to increase cir­cu­la­tion and elim­i­nate tox­ins from the blood by react­ing with them and break­ing them down.

Mean­while, the far-infrared rays are absorbed by cells—not just in the skin but through­out the body—causing all the indi­vid­ual atoms to begin vibrat­ing at a higher fre­quency, which speeds up the metab­o­lism and the elim­i­na­tion of wastes. This is par­tic­u­larly help­ful for alle­vi­at­ing sore­ness due to fatigue or injury, accord­ing to Green-shield.

Well, thank god for a con­stant stream of neg­a­tive ions and far-infrared rays around your pri­vates. One ques­tion though about reduc­ing 90% of the odor – either these peo­ple need some FDS or maybe they should just wipe bet­ter, huh?