Dockers is launching a new style of “S-fit trousers” next year that include a pocket intended to protect the wearer from cell-phone radiation. “The Dockers trousers will have a mobile phone pocket with a shielding lining between the phone and the skin,” a Levi’s representative told ZDNet UK.

I am almost paranoid enough to buy one those, even though I know it’s probably crap and wouldn’t work. But ever since I wrote a profile of Louis Slesin — a researcher who’s tracked the freakish health effects of wireless radiation for twenty years — I’ve been increasingly unsettled by my phone, which I carry, of course, in my pants pocket all day long, letting it leak radiation slowly into the family jewels.