When the developers of “OFF Pocket,” a sleeve for smartphones that blocks incoming phone signals, WiFi, GPS and Internet connections, launched their kickstarter campaign looking for $35,000, they ended up raising $56,447. NPR blogger Robert Krulwich offers his views on why the campaign was so successful. At some point, news of the U.S. government’s warrantless data collection combined with a proliferation of surveillance devices will “make us wonder… ‘Who's watching me?’” he writes, adding, “once we start wondering, it's only natural to think about protecting ourselves—and that's the change, I suspect, that has just begun.” After its kickstarter success, OFF Pocket may go commercial, but concerns about use by terrorists have caused designers of other surveillance-blocking attire to hold back their technologies.
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