The development of the No-Contact Jacket is to intervene into the social condition of violence against women. This project enters a new realm of communication by expanding the borders between technology, visual arts, culture, product and the mass market.

The No-Contact Jacket is a wearable defensive jacket which was made for women to protect themselves. If the wearer feels threatened, she can activate a switch in her palm that blasts 80,000 volts of low amperage electric current pulse just below the surface shell of the entire jacket. That’s enough to knock anybody back a few paces.

If an assailant were to grab hold of the wearer the high voltage exterior would interrupt their neurological impulses which control voluntary muscle movement.

The neuromuscular system would be overwhelmed causing disorientation and loss of balance to occur and of course pain. The pain experienced is non-lethal, but is enough to effectively and immediately deter contact with the wearer and provide a critical life saving opportunity for escape.

The No-Contact Jacket also challenges existing power landscapes between men and women and alters ideas of the human space and boundaries. Protecting and empowering the female body from unauthorized contact will allow for her to inhabit her environment in a more confident way and thus redefine and renegotiate her physical space and identity. The No-Contact Jacket will begin to shift ideas of perceived female vulnerabilities.

I think every woman should have the jacket like this; it’s a good protection from robbery and a pretty clothe too.

Reference:
http://www.no-contact.com/