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Bacterial melanin clothes may protect us from UV rays in the future - Yanko Design

www.yankodesign.com Bacterial melanin clothes may protect us from UV rays in the future - Yanko Design

I live in a country where it's always hot most of the year (except when it's raining). It's a 15-minute walk under the scorching sun from my house to my workplace and it's something I've gotten used to already (albeit with a lot of complaining). I am aware of all the UV rays that I'm

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I thought that clothes already block UV rays by being optically opaque!
- A cotton t-shirt has a SPF of about 6. It will help, but we can do better, even without melanin-infused clothing.
  There are also UV transparent bikinis, for tanning without tan lines or nudity.
- Maybe a little. Hold a shirt up to your face and you'll still see light.

Lemme just slip into my second skin before we go outside
- Lizard people?
- a skin-tight second-skin in a hot climate …

Future kinks are being established I see.
- Destroyed, I like tan lines

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