Convenient, connected and affordable: ProtonVPN launches a blanket with a built-in NFC chip

Have you ever used a VPN service and thought, “That’s great, but I could be warmer”? Proton VPN, in collaboration with British streetwear brand Aries, has introduced a service Elegant blanket It has an NFC chip built into it. Using the NFC chip by tapping the phone unlocks a free month’s offer of Proton’s unlimited VPN service, which normally costs $10 per month. Customers will then be able to access content from more than 120 countries.

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The grey/ecru blanket is not cheap. It costs $260. The blanket measures about 4 feet by 4.5 feet and is made in Italy from an 80% wool, 20% polyamide blend, according to Aries.

The design can be described as a mixture of patterns, shapes such as alien heads and peace symbols, and some stray words and phrases, such as “Hello” and “We love our homeland”.

The companies call it the world’s first VPN blanket. Aries and Proton stopped short of calling it the only NFC blanket on the market – the National Football League He might have something to say about that.

It was the proton High rating Among the VPN services reviewed by CNET. Improvements have been made to the service and new features have been introduced such as Part of the fall/winter roadmapincluding new server locations and infrastructure updates.