The GoDark Faraday Bags Story

GoDark Bags is on a mission to provide the most reliable signal blocking Faraday products on the market to protect your privacy, your health and your electronics. Products that work correctly each and every time and will not fall apart or stop working with basic wear and tear.

Our mobile devices connect us to the modern world and have become central to how we organize and manage our lives. Sadly though, it seems near impossible to have a full understanding of what’s going on inside of them as evidenced by regular news of mobile hacking scandals, “unreported features” from the manufacturer, identity theft, and even our real-time location and movements being tracked and sold off to the highest bidder.

Our Philosophy is Simple

You own your electronics and you're ultimately responsible for them, therefore you should have the ability to control when they transmit and receive electromagnetic signals. 

Whether your concerns are privacy and location tracking, health concerns, or you just want to protect your electronics from external static or electromagnetic damage, GoDark Bags has it covered… literally.

Creating the GoDark Faraday Bag

I’m Todd Ariss, co-founder of Tarriss Travel Gear and our newest research and development division, GoDark Faraday Bags.

The GoDark Faraday Bag journey has been a long and circuitous one that traces through my early days as a physicist at the Cross Cancer Institute, followed by a joint project between the Centre for Subatomic Research and CERN. This was followed by more than a decade of software development beginning with the Silicon Valley startup AvantGo, a bleeding edge early developer of wireless software.

In 2014 I co-founded Tarriss Travel Gear so I could scratch an itch. As an avid traveller I had my own ideas about what I wanted in a product and was frustrated that I was unable to find it. Soon after, we introduced our Jetsetter Digital Luggage Scale which has become one of the most popular and recognized luggage scales on the market.

Although I was well versed in signal blocking from my work as a physicist, it was the research and development of Tarriss’ popular RFID blocking money belts and neck wallets that ultimately led us to develop the new GoDark Faraday Bag line of products.

We heard from a great many people who want to protect their phones from other people, and themselves from their phones. From business travellers concerned about being hacked while abroad to the health conscious interested in protecting themselves from EMF, and the privacy aware folks tired of being tagged and tracked like wildlife... all were fed up and wanted an easy and reliable way to take back control of their devices.

The GoDark Faraday Bag, the first product to come out of our new R&D division, is the culmination of 18 months of collaboration between myself, my co-founder and some very talented and experienced industrial designers from Seattle.

Wanting to build something different, we began by testing out of many of currently available products, and what we found was actually pretty frightening. While there were a few decent products out there, none quite satisfied what we were looking for, and many of them simply did not work. Some blocked one signal such as cell but failed to adequately block WiFi or GPS.

As well we discovered that poorly designed or manufactured cases with fold over flaps could fail if the bag was turned upside down. In some cases the weight of the device pressing against the closure at the fold-over caused the closure to separate compromising the signal blocking effectiveness.

Most concerning of all was that a vast majority of the Faraday bags or cases we saw had not been tested by 3rd party engineers in a properly equipped laboratory. Many of the products on the market were private label with the brand owner unable confirm any specific testing done as they were often not privy to the manufacturing or testing details of the products they were selling.

None of this instilled the kind of confidence we were looking for to protect our privacy, electronics and health so with research in hand we set out to build a better Faraday bag. 

The GoDark Faraday Bag Criteria

After much prototyping and 3rd party laboratory testing, we believe we have achieved our goal and are proud to offer our GoDark Faraday Bag for Phones and Tablets as the first product from the new GoDark Faraday Bags division of Tarriss Travel Gear.

We have a lot of exciting new EMF signal blocking products in development and in the months ahead I will look forward to introducing you to many new innovative products designed to enhance your privacy and protect your health.