Copper infused socks

[Homer J Simpson]

http://www.miraclecopper.com/

[SeanB]

Copper sulphate is cheaper, and more effective as well.

[tooki]

Soon there will be cryogenic processed Rhodium-Palladium-Silver infused socks for audiophiles with foot odor problem.

They already sell (non-audiophile) silver-treated socks. As best I know, the science behind silver or copper against foot odor is actually sound, since those metals do have antimicrobial properties. (I've even heard of hospitals changing to copper doorknobs, hand rails, etc because of how well it reduces bacteria.)

[mc172]

The early 90s wants their website back. Who buys this shit?

[jpanhalt]

Do the people (victims) develop Kayser-Fleischer rings (rings around the periphera of the eye iris)?

Maybe that will become fashion statement.

John 

[Halcyon]

Soon there will be cryogenic processed Rhodium-Palladium-Silver infused socks for audiophiles with foot odor problem.

They already sell (non-audiophile) silver-treated socks. As best I know, the science behind silver or copper against foot odor is actually sound, since those metals do have antimicrobial properties. (I've even heard of hospitals changing to copper doorknobs, hand rails, etc because of how well it reduces bacteria.)

True for Silver (not sure about copper). Silver is used in many home appliances. Samsung call this "Silver Nano" but it's not exclusive to their products. Antimicrobial properties of Silver are very well documented.

[tooki]

True for Silver (not sure about copper). Silver is used in many home appliances. Samsung call this "Silver Nano" but it's not exclusive to their products. Antimicrobial properties of Silver are very well documented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_copper

Do the people (victims) develop Kayser-Fleischer rings (rings around the periphera of the eye iris)?

Were you planning on eating the socks? 

[daqq]

True for Silver (not sure about copper). Silver is used in many home appliances. Samsung call this "Silver Nano" but it's not exclusive to their products. Antimicrobial properties of Silver are very well documented.

Yup, but there's also a lot of iffy silver based "medicine", that can turn you blue-ish:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria

[tooki]

True for Silver (not sure about copper). Silver is used in many home appliances. Samsung call this "Silver Nano" but it's not exclusive to their products. Antimicrobial properties of Silver are very well documented.

Yup, but there's also a lot of iffy silver based "medicine", that can turn you blue-ish:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria

Indeed. Silver and copper are great topical antimicrobials. They have no systemic function.

I haven't figured out whether to laugh or cry at people with argyria. I mean, I like tattoos and argyria is just a whole-body tattoo from the inside, after all!

[cdev]

Copper is toxic, in any larger than extremely small amounts. Always use rubber gloves (or tongs or for really small boards a bent piece of insulated wire) for etching/agitation, of PCBs etc.

The indiscriminate use of engineered nanoparticles in textiles is unwise. We have no idea what the long term health effects of many ENPs are. ENPs are biologically active in many cases because of their size, they can have complex effects when accompanying other environmental contaminants and the effect may be to entrain the immune system to mount an immune response against something inappropriate. Your immune system stays with you for life. Because of this immune system entrainment amplifying (there must be some word for it but I dont know it) /haptic effect ENPs may be an environmental nightmare waiting to happen.  Is it really worth it to prevent having to wash your socks or underwear when you should with the biological equivalent of nuclear weapons for living things?  We should consider that we don't know everything. The microbacteria that inhabit that space may be keeping something even worse away.